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1966 Plymouth Fury 3


PhilA

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Yesterday started like this:

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I decided to take a look at the "repair" to the left rear quarter, as from inside there was less of the original metal left.

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I uncovered the seam where the new metal had been added. Very strange, right on the top of the swage, but looking inside showed the swage was still there underneath.

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Couple of pounds of filler on the floor and the whole seam is available to view. Tack welded on.

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Zip, clatter.

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Cleaned up a little, you can see the original coachline of the car, albeit wavy. Much better. Worse, but better.

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The whole back end of the car was filler as I worked my way up.

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Really quite thick, too.

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It continued, in geological looking strata.

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That's as far as I got, ran out of time and my angle grinder was getting too hot to hold. 

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Sprayed a bit of gloss on, and that shows the story of the panel.

Best I can come up with is someone put a ratchet strap all the way around the back too tightly and dented it all to hell.

That's going to be fun to bring back to shape. I'll carry on pulling the Bondo out before I start on that...

 

Phil

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You’ll massively improve the cars gas mileage too if you keep grinding out all that plop! The thickness and sheer amount of filler must be adding an awful lot of weight!

It’s similar to what I found on my Capri, someone had replaced the rear arches way back whenever but instead of cutting the old ones off and seam welding new ones in they just cut the old rotten edges back then put the new arches over the top and tack welded them in place (lap jointed!) then plastered the rear quarters in filler to hide the joint. The thickness of the filler in places was incredible. How it didn’t just fall off under its own weight I don’t know!

Anyway, keep it up. It’ll be a great car once your done.

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Just wanted to practice with flux core to get back into the hang of it. Mostly because I don't have any gas right now and the thing cane with a reel of wire and I had another spool from my neighbor.

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Had a go at getting the overall profile correct, with hammers.

At bodyshop rates that was about $70 of work to get to the point where it's just about ready for a light skim of filler to take up the dimples.

Phil

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28 degrees in the garage and the oppressive humidity from a thunderstorm starting to roll in. What better time to fire up a 1.5kW heat gun in an enclosed space and lean upside down with a scraper?

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Got this far before sacking it off as a bad idea. I need a smaller blade to remove the tar in the crease, I can't get the right angle with this one.

Then, I can clean it up and the dolly will work better instead of being cushioned.

 

Phil

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do you think theres a caveat in the t and cs

sporty only in a straight line...............

car hire is all over the place avis 360 for a smol car but the mid suv was 250

hertz not cheap either - pic is enterprise (wonder why i use them :D )

v6 transit 500 :D

 

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Just now, hairnet said:

do you think theres a caveat in the t and cs

sporty only in a straight line...............

car hire is all over the place avis 360 for a smol car but the mid suv was 250

hertz not cheap either - pic is enterprise (wonder why i use them :D )

v6 transit 500 :D

 

Actually no. Because it's got a fair bit of Mercedes underneath they handle remarkably well for how big they are.

As for 303hp.. it's a nice engine and it sounds good. Smooth, reliable. Just doesn't suit the car.

Drive down and you can take mine for a spin.

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