Thanks Wrench, I got the idea from one of the members after they did video's of their restoration. As Im not the one with the knowledge I take
the pictures and tell how they do some of this, its quite interesting to watch them think and work. After yesterdays work and pictures, Barry
had cut out a portion of the wheel well that had not been fixed by the previous owners. First I should say when we bought this car, they had a
Professional put in a complete floor from the cowl, to the back seat, and replaced most of the underneath braces. They also replaced the drivers
side rear quarter panel, passenger lower quarter panel. He had fixed both doors, both fenders, the hood (3) of them were junk and we took them the metal junk yard. The car came with a 409 truck engine rebuilt, 4 spd tranny etc, these we did not buy. So back to the Body Work. My partner is very good at fixing metal and painting. He cannot understand how someone can start and not do the best possible job , even when it takes much
longer to complete, he's just that way. So fixing someone else's body work is quite a challenge. So today he cut the portion out of the wheel well lip.
It was probably 3/4 of the lip area long, 24" or so, and about 2 1/2 in wide, now this is a curved section. He had some light metal of a "FOREIGN" car.. lol sometimes its good to use light metal to shape things. He had cut a section out, and used it to pattern the new piece. I sat in my chair outside his garage, it was a nice day, and watch him work on the piece for maybe a good 2 hrs. I don't say anything to him, because he's in DEEP concentration. He laid it in and it was very close, till it had to make the turn down. This is a straight piece, so he cut a slice in it in two places about 4" apart and then it would bend and make the turn. How cool, was that to watch. He always uses Por 15 sealer on metal before welding another piece over it, thats to protect the rust from coming back..... Rust is NOT your friend.
WEll enough BS for today, here's a few more pictures of our day.