today may be the final day in getting
all these panels to fit my wrecked car
I'm talking about swap meet parts like
doors fenders hoods deck lids all coming
together on a rec table to build the
foundation of what is yet to come
today is huge
the right time buying a wreck tub like
this is generally not a good idea and
it's not for everybody but if you are a
DIY er like Mike like myself then this
can be a great way to get into a classic
car for a lot less money and enjoy the
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you very much alright I have a clean
workbench for a change which is awesome
so let's get started
I had to put a little relief cut right
here in order to get this gap in the
front even this piece here was just
unmovable because the way it had a
corner in it so unfortunately I had to
cut this I'm gonna take well did get the
paint off here I'm gonna take weld it
and you it'll you'll never know
I'm able to get to the backside of this
part because when I take the door off I
can treat the inside for for rust using
epoxy primer and some topcoat
okay here's that relief cut and it's
it's collapsed down to where now I can
come back and weld this this is the gap
I wanted I got an even gap all the way
along the bottom of the door
woohoo okay now I'm going to take the
door off so I can access this bottom
here for welding but before I do I just
want to take a picture of sort of where
I need to add material to the door
because I'm gonna do that at the same
time so right up to here and this is
good this is this is three four
millimeters it only starts to deviate
right here at this corner so from here
till about here I'm going to be adding
lead so I'm gonna put that on there with
a sharpie and also reference this video
if I need to go back and and look at
where I was
I'm just adding a small weld bead just
forward of the same section I did last
week
all righty I got the door off the car
and I'm getting ready to strip the paint
off this front leading edge here so I
can do some letting but one thing I
wanted to show you is that this has been
stripped along the bottom and there is a
little bit of rust so if you look really
closely I've cleaned out these rust pits
they're very tiny but this is kind of a
deep rough spit this is where the skin
hems over and it's double sided here so
what I'm gonna do is use the TIG welder
and kind of fill up these little craters
now I've cleaned them out really well
with wire brush on the angle grinder and
also my pneumatic wire brush so I'm
going to try to weld these
okay I tried to show you the shots under
the welding helmet and this is the
result of filling up those two pits with
with filler rod so I'm gonna go over
this with a you know my my cutoff tool
just to grind it down a little bit and
then finally my angle grinder with some
80 grit and this should come back to
just flat metal so there you go that's
just another advantage of TIG welding
it's got a lot of versatility gonna
definitely do you know thin stuff but
this works for me so let's move on okay
here's the result of what I did down
here in the bottom remember I I slip
this with the cutoff wheel and then I
just welded that back together this has
already been ground smooth and this is
finished there was also a little crack
right here I don't know if I have a
before picture off to look in the video
but I fixed the crack and we have a
pretty tight gap here still need to do a
little bodywork to the to the to the
fender but this joint right here is
looking really nice okay the reason I
took the door off to begin with was to
clean off the paint and do the letting
on this leading edge
hopefully there's enough material on
here I mean definitely needs to be filed
down but hopefully after filing this
we'll get that gap we want towards the
front
okay as you can see the door is now on
the car and this is looking pretty good
so it's an erratic gap here but it's
much tighter so this is gonna work out
really nice as it comes down so right
here it's actually binding and touching
so I got a little too much down low but
everything else looks to be pretty nice
let me get my gap checker okay here's
the three millimeter tool and it won't
go in which is great it will go in right
there this is about four to five so no
go almost right there
goes right here this is three this is
about four and then everything from here
down is is very tight so I'm going to
start filing this and making it more
even so we can get a consistent gap
all right after just a little bit of
filing this gap is looking really nice
this is three millimeters maybe a little
bit less on this upper arched area but
it is looking pretty good and from the
side view profile you know going down is
is really nice there's a little bit of a
kind of caved in area down here so I'm
gonna take the door off I'm gonna do a
little more filing here on the lead but
trying to remove this kind of caved in
portion and also this dent here on the
fender and then this side will be done
I'm using a paintless dent tool to
massage out a dent in the rocker panel
here
to the hacksaw blade does a good job
defining the gap but it can only go down
so deep so now I'm going to take care of
all this lower stuff while the door is
off and just tidy up this edge so that
it can be painted later on now I have a
driver's door that fits and a passenger
door and the deck lid and a hood
well the workbench was clean oh okay
I've repositioned the car so I can get
access to the front I want to revisit
this section where the grill and the
turn signals meet the bumper because
when I did the back date on this fender
and I was doing so on the bench I
realized that there was a large gap here
between the grill and the turn signal
lens and I thought I would address it
before paint and so the time is now I
want to get this done this week so I'm
gonna put the bumper on now and try to
line everything up it's probably gonna
require some cutting all right so here's
the issue I'm having with this side the
grill either lines up with the top of
the fender and has a nice gap across the
front like this or it lines up with the
horizontal line in the bumper like this
but then it leaves a large gap here at
the top
okay all I've done here is I've just cut
that corner where the turn signal box is
attached to the fender and it's really
relaxed everything to allow things to
fit horizontal I mean this is just how I
want it so now I'm dealt I'm dealing
with the you know empty space there at
the top where I cut it I need to fill
that up and I'm also dealing with I
think you can see over here this gap
right here just got a little bit tighter
only because the grille is rotated
horizontal again so I'm probably gonna
have to tune up this leading or this
edge here on the side I'm gonna have to
tune that up a little bit as well to get
the gap back
okay I have this sort of arbitrary strip
here cut out and I'm tacking it in place
and kind of cutting and forming it as I
go so this is really flexible I'm just
wrapping it around filling up the gap
and welding from both sides here's where
it gets too narrow I'm gonna have to
take my time just filling up that hole
but it's doable it's just you know
welding welding welding here's a quick
progress check put the lens back in just
make sure that spacing and the
horizontal position is right
so as you can see behind me in this
video things are just now starting to
line up which is a great sign you know
this was once an abandoned project left
in Nevada desert nobody wanted it
people parted it out now it has just a
little glimmer of hope it's starting to
look like a car again and it's on its
way up so my method the DIY method is a
trade off there's typically three things
you can have quick high-quality and
cheap so you can only kind of pick two
my method is definitely the high quality
how I tried to do it as best I can and
cheap so you know you can pay someone to
do this kind of work but it would be
very cost prohibitive which is why I
started this video by saying it's
generally not recommended to buy a strip
shell like this and try to bring it back
to life the heavy lifting is is now done
meaning this is a strong foundation to
start building this thing up also in
addition to getting this thing shaped
shipshape for the road again we've done
a lot of modifications this is somewhere
between an RS clone and kind of an
outlaw
so the modifications to backdate this to
a 73 we're also a big portion portion at
a time and like I mentioned early in in
this video series these cars can be
purchased for a lot less money than a 73
and the work that I've done here to make
it look like a 73 to some degree of
quality is gonna pay off big all right
here's the final alignment of the turn
signal and horn grill and metal
finishing around that top edge that was
spliced in I'm really happy with how it
turned out I think it was worth it so
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