Heaps of progress over the long weekend...Had my Cousin helping me on monday which was great. Ran out of gas on the MIG tho so that's slowed me down a bit!
paint stripping the passenger rear guard


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This shows an area that was filled with bog. There was a large-ish dent that was just bogged straight over, maybe 5mm deep. Can't have that!

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All stripped!

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We Massaged the dent out, got it almost perfect but it wasn't easy as the hole cut for the old LPG filler was making the panel behave a bit weird... I think it creates a loose point maybe... hard to explain, it's like the metal isn't as tightly stretched as it needs to be...
Anyway we got it prety close, I tacked a fill in panel where the filler hole was, when I weld it in fully then I'll do a bit more work on the dent, if I can't get it perfect I might need to put 1-2mm of filler in there, I'd rather have a 1mm low spot than risk going too far and causing a high area.


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Got a different front quarter instead of the one I butchered, My old one wasn't too bad so it'll make a good spare to hang in the garage.
The new one is taiwanese though so it'll be interesting to see how it fits.
It was sprayed in some sort of primer, with baby blue underneath, black primer under that! Paint stripping revealed all the layers!


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gave it a light coat of etch then ran out of daylight.

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took a pic of the car outside with no front, its weird to drive it in and out of the garage with nothing in front but the engine!

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Between stripping and paint drying on the guards I was cutting and unpicking spot welds on the rad support. The Prem one was rusted pretty bad as the pics show:

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So I carefully cut a section from the single headlight Kingswood support panel and grafted it to the premier support panel.



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That's about all for the moment. Next on the list is more bodywork on the passenger rear guard, finish welding the rad support and trial fit all the front panels.
I also scored a new passenger front door, the old door had rust in the skin, this one has a tiny hole on the inside bottom edge. easy fix. much easier than dealing with the doorskin.