I was just thinking the same thing

Prove them wrong!

Your project is coming along nicely!

Look at what I drug in about two years ago that needs everything.


https://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/show...e=4&fpart=1

Lots of people asked...
*Why do ya wanna fix that POS?
*Why bother?
*Or you are kidding right?

Just wait..But then again. Us Mopar guys have to be slightly nuts to do what we do

Congrats on progress

Great job! I know I don't have the time or will power to tackle something that major. Can't wait to see it done!

Jake, I am blown away with your skills and determination. I just cant believe you have never done this at this level. Keep it up sir. We love the progress. Makes me want to get out of my easy chair and do more on mine. You will be driving this by spring.

OK, I've been working on the roof and found that my Harbor Freight spot welder is not capable of good welds so I have been working on some modifications and will post my results. So far I have been able to get close to factory welds with some modified microwave parts. I will post instructions and how to's soon.

You sir are an inspiration to us all

Looks great

Look forward to your update

Looks like your doing some good work there. The guy that's going my car had to section the Goodmark front fenders just like what your having to do to the rear. The fenders sat a lot lower than the hood and the gap was too big.

The full quarters seemed to fit my car a lot better then how they're fitting on your car for whatever reason. Some welding rod needed to be added to the sides of the trunk lid to take up the gap but nothing had to be done to the top of the quarters to my knowledge. I was using a factory trunk lid though...that might have been part of it.

Keep up the great work.

My first time viewing this post, and I must say WOW. You are doing amazing. Keep up the great work, I will be checking in on a regular basis. You are proving that almost nothing is "too far gone" if you have the determination to do the work.

Any updates? This is the one post I keep coming back to.

Oh Jake where art thou!

Hello all,

Sorry I've not been back in a while. It's been pretty busy around here with work and the holidays, not to mention the things I've been neglacting around the house. Luckily my wife is very patient and understanding of my obsessive personality or I'd be living in this drafty old Dodge!
Anyway, last I posted, I was working on a spot welder and that's a long story. To make it short, the first coupl attempts didn't quite have enough juice so I went BIG and now I've got a little too much power but I will get right. For now I decided to just go with good old plug welds as they are something I can do right now and get back to progress on the car.
So here's some more on the back of the car. The quarters are pretty close now so I started working on the dutchman panel. It was way off on contour and length so I just cut the ends off and started over.

I used the Harbor Freight stretcher/shrinker to form a new end for both sides and butt-welded them in to the dutchman panel. It was a little intimidating at first bacause of the compound curves, but it really was pretty easy. It only took about an hour to do each side and the fit is near perfect. I say near perfect because I don't believe anything can be truly perfect on this sort of thing.

That was the new piece clamped and ready for welding.
Here it is welded and ground smooth.

It went pretty smooth and fit really well. I got it in place and put a few tack welds in place to hold it in position so I could get in the trunk and weld it properly without having to worry about clamps being in the way, it's pretty tight in there as it is. I'll dremel those tacks off later.

Doesn't look too bad for a heating guy.

And at this point, I'm feeling like some new scenery. Here's a shot of the whole panel.

So like I said, I was needing something new to look at and I got more than I bargained for. I drilled the roof off to replace it with a new AMD piece and found it was a very good thing I did. The skin looked pretty rough but I had no idea how bad the structure was.

There a few here so hang with me.

I'm sure glad I had gained some experience by this point or this stuff would have been very intimidating to see.