Well I have this car in the shop now and will be going over with the owner about how to proceed. I'm sure there will be a difference of opinion lol.
The rear quarters were installed by a collision repair shop...now I'm tasked to finish the job.
It also need floor pans and braces.
Oh, and an interior and a top lol.
"She ain't much to look at, but she'll get ya where you're going"
I'll let the pics speak,
And the trunk lid had all the insulation from in between the outer skin and inner bracing melted away.
lots of fun stuff ahead!
cheers
1964 Impala, oh dear!
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Hopefully they had that frame supported when they cut and welded those quarters. Convertibles are especially vulnerable to twisting and should also have bracing in the door jamb areas when replacing metal.
I am sure you know all this but taking over what someone else started always causes me to double check everything they did. 1968 Coronet R/T
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I can almost guarantee that they did not brace anything when they replaced the 1/4s. I have it on my hoist with the pads under the rockers (there is an extra beam under the rockers on these X-frame cars) and as soon as I lifted the gap at the top of the door started to widen. cheers Good judgement comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgement.
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RUN! from that one! Sorry but that's one I would turn around and send back down the road. Gonna be near impossible to get her square again. And I'm sorry but the Crude Hammer marks don't say too many good things about the technicians metal shaping ability's or skill level that did the work on those quarters. Why guys fall into the trap of replacing full quarters with cheap after market quarters is beyond me. If you had good originals to use fine use them but originals are hard to find and expensive when you do even good used ones BUT today's cheap after market panels most are just skins any way are only good for cutting up and using as patch panels to repair an original panel in my opinion. I would rather save as much original metal as I can repairing an Original quarter, You only have original's once and once there cut off there gone! A repaired original even with minor internal surface rust is still 1000 times better in fit and Quality than a poorly fitting, poorly shaped, lesser quality metal, cheap aftermarket panel. Dennis B.
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Good luck! Looks like you've got your hands full
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Street sign, roofing tar, and rivets. Throw the carpet back over it. Good to go.
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Looking good.
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