Finished the repair around the rear screen (sorry but no photos, they're not that interesting anyway) and thought it would be a good idea to dig into the rear haunches and see what repairs need to be had. Well, I must have digged out about 5 tins of bog! The stuff was half an inch thick in places (example below), as you say dodgy bros panelbeating have been well into this one!
All of the bare metal areas you see had bog of varying thickness covering it
Stupid thing is that half of it didn't even need to be there, 5min of hammer and dolly work would have most of the dents out and whoever did the bog-work didnt follow the contours of the panels but tried to 'straighten' all of the curves out
Being such long panels it would be almost impossible to get them dead straight but I but I can make them a hell of alot better than this, there are a heap of dents across this panel (ex wife with a golf club?) which should come out with a hammer and dolly.
It's about this time that I wished they'd just fill the holes with bog rather than play with the mig..
(some old lead loading in this repair, a rust hole at the edge)
This car would have originally had a chrome strip running down the side, the mig repairs of the holes the chrome fitted into are less than impressive...
This dent in the rear had about an inch of fibreglass filler in it, I'll replace this section, it has began rusting at the bottom.
Soon after I bought this car it needed some rust repair to get a WOF, this is the result
They've brazed small sections in (which is good) but I'm less than impressed with how they line up with the roof section. I'm inclined to leave them there are smooth the area with fibreglass filler rather than mig new sections in since they are right in the area where the roof seam is and there is alot of lead loading around this region (anyone out there recken I should dig out the lead, fix it new and smooth it over in fibreglass?)
So this will definately keep me busy, at least I have a decent amount of time off over xmas/NYs to fix it up.
