Cut, Grind, fit, Grind some more.......
I gotta tell you, I'll be glad when this ***** is finished! The Garage looks like
it was hit by an earthquake. There is grinding dust EVERYWHERE! Little shards of sharp-assed metal is all over the place,
( I usually find one after I kneel on it). My Tools are strung out from hell to eternity, I come in at 9PM, after working on it for about 12 hours, lifeless and filthy as two pigs. I got black dust so far up my sinuses I betcha my brain is black. Blah-blah-blah; Rant-Rant-Rant; Bitch-Bitch-Bitch.
Wait,....you don't want to hear me piss and moan, you want to see what I've done.....
Ohhhh,,that's quite different........................Nevermind!
Today I started on the other side of the front end. You can see the piece sitting on top that I cut from 16 ga sheetmetal.
After the one piece is screwed down, I fit another piece and tacked it to that. This is the cutline I traced from behind the bumper.
I then welded the piss out of the joint. I grind a radius in at the top, so you need alot of weld underneath to keep from grinding through on top.
After that, put it back in place, tack it weld it grind it, and it ends up looking something like this:
I also piddled around w/ the rear quarter. This is what I had to do to get rid of the line that was molded in for the body side molding;
You can see the real problem at the back where that body side molding stuck out beyond the bumpers' curve.
I had to beat the hell out of the cut piece to flatten it.
Then I'll have to reweld it back in place Like the finished Drivers side.
I know that there are several guys using the nickname "Frankenstang" for their cars,.....But if they didn't cut it up like this one, substitute other parts from long dead body styles, and try to bring the whole thing back to life when it was all "sewed" back together,....maybe they should re-think their nickname.