Welded in the rear corner piece on the drivers side so I could do the final fitting on the quarter panel. This assembly is the weirdest configuration of parts ever. I split the corner that was in the quarter panel and it will get hammered into the pocket and welded to it. Strange, but whatever it takes to keep moving forward.
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I also had to remake that little curved piece at the bottom of the door jamb. I bent one up and tacked it into place. The quarter panel needs pulled down and the little gap seen in the photo will go away.
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The lower "bend" where the quarter panel wraps around the rocker wasn't a tight enough angle so I had to make a set of folding pliers out of a vice grip clamp. Turns out that this modified clamp works well pulling flanges together like when installing the trunk floor extensions.
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I coated the whole side with POR15 to minimize any rust under there in the future. I then stripped all the E-coat off of the mating surfaces where the plug welds will go and then covered those surfaces with a weld through primer.
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You can see here that the fold where the quarter panel turns to meet the dutchman panel is needing a little more convincing to go down where it should go. At this point, I'm not sure how to do that without damaging it. I'll come up with a solution as usual.
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The door seam needs a little work at the top where the angle of the door doesn't quite line up with the angle of the quarter panel. I'll have to determine which I'm going to fix, the door or the quarter. Decisions, decisions.
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All in all, it fits pretty decent. I have a few things to tweak and another test fit and it will go on for good.
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Here's the shot down the body. It's starting to look like a car with the sheet metal back on. All this metal work is giving me some experience to apply to that front fender. That poor thing was used and abused in its day.
