[theastronaut]

Been making progress, just not posting it. The owner has been here the last two weeks to help out. He's been stripping panels and helping me get the body squared up.


You would have never guess what we found under the paint on the tail panel...









Same thing in the passenger side door jamb.





Stripped the quarter to see how tall the patch panel needed to be made.





Since the body had been off of the frame without proper bracing it was sagging pretty badly. We bolted up the doors to check how far off it was and the doors wouldn't close at first, they were overlapping the quarters. We adjusted the opening with the adjustable braces I welded in to get the door openings back into shape.







Front half fitted to the cowl first, then tack welded in place.







After leveling the body on the frame and adjusting the bracing to fit the doors.







Once the body was back in shape I added more bracing to keep it in place. Definitely don't want it twisting out of shape on the rotisserie!






Made a few more patch panels.