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I would have guessed more, and some probably were, but I asked more than once and some were cheaper. To me, some of those cars looked too far gone to repair. They recently had a very nice 68 Charger that was wrecked hard in the front. Old time shop, just closed. Took my latest daily driver in...
A buddy runs a frame rack in an alignment shop. He does a lot of work for repairable operations, so I've seen cars that were smashed in front an pushed to the side. I asked once of a car that looked very bad. $300 to pull it back to factory specs. I asked how close it was and he said they are...
The bottom of the rocker looks good. I think that would be consistent with old repairs. If the panel were full of dust holding moisture, the bottom would probably have bubbles. Put a magnetic business card on it. The good news is it's down low, so any fix you do a lot less apt to be...
and not all chromes are the same; some scratch easily. I wash with a soft brush to remove the dirt, then go over it lightly with a cotton cloth and a car wax, just coating it, not polishing yet. The idea is to remove the rest of the dirt with the wax. I like Meguiar's Carnauba. With 0000...
It looks like a basket weave pattern. The bands look wider than wire mesh. Found this with a search:
https://www.mcnichols.com/designer-metals/designer-mesh?Nrpp=1000
The layout of the place I saw had four stalls on one side with doors where the rough work was going on, and from there, the cars would proceed forward for more prep, and then they would turn left into the paint booth, then ahead into an oven the same size as the paint booth. It had rows of heat...
I was going to paint a citation for a girlfriend at that time. Out of curiosity, I went to a well-known local paint shop. They quoted me $1300. Went to Maaco, and it was $179 just to spray. It was $10 to fix a scratch, $25 to fix a door dent, etc., etc. Blemish by blemish brought the Maaco...
Around here ranchers use barbed wire to get pests out of their holes. They stick it down the hole and then turn it. It gets caught up in the fur and they can drag that critter out. I'm glad I don't have to do that sort of stuff. But then again, the ranch I was on today looking at puppies is...
Some might think it drastic, but if it goes all of the way through, I would consider drilling a 1 inch hole in the end and running Barbwire up in it. Then put a body plug in the hole. But then, I'm part caveman
My opinion to him was: the car has not seen rain in 30 years and will only see it by accident in the next 30. Treat it, paint it, get it back together, and start having fun with it.
I bought thousands of albums from a serious collector so I'm buying an ultrasonic record cleaner. It can be used to clean other things, so I'll find a car part with two panels that fit tight like a door skin and see if the ultrasonic cleaning action can remove corrosion between those panels...
my friend is taking advice from a guy who gets paid to do it perfectly. Going to that extreme seems too much to me. I don't have any panels I could paint with a phosphoric treatment and then split apart to see if it soaked everywhere between the panels or just sealed the perimeter.
I've...
A friend is restoring his car and I haven't had the experience to answer his question. On the back side of his door where the shell and the skin are crimped and welded, surface rust exists. He wants to tear it apart, clean the rust and put it back together on the advice of a friend who has...
My Dad had a black 1964 IH half ton pickup. In 1969, he let a friend of mine and me pin stripe it, update the radio to a Kraco, and put woodgrain vinyl on the dash. JC Whitney sold a 6-pack scoop, and he thought about it, but I couldn't get him to go for it. I still think the the lines work
You might also call a frame shop in Dallas and ask. I assume they have that information for fixing cars. If you decide it needs to be made square, I find the one I use to be very reasonable.