Dutch '59 Fleetside Longbed

[RockinKees]

Steve-W, it's a tool that manually bends sheetmetal.
Google "sheet metal brake" and you know all about it

Sure I know Prins Trucks, just got my parts from him...
Two parts missing and one part wrong, send an email, no answer yet.
But I'm sure he will solve this.

I don't need it to be original, if it's good it's good!
I am a Hot Rodder by life
If I can make the parts, I make them, and also the car isn't going to be original
I always say: If you drive 80 mph, you don't see it anyway!!

On to todays business:
Got the lower left cowl and a piece of the floor repaired, not in one day to be honest, it's pretty time consuming, you know that!

Made the triangular piece of the inner cowl:




Then I made the floor:




Then on to the difficult part....
First I made a 2 mm thick plate for the hinge:


Then bend and knocked the outside of the pocket (1,5 mm thick):


Then the inner piece and bottom (1,5 mm thick:




I bolted the fender on for reverence of the lower bolt, and made this bolt support out out 2 mm thick plate:


The bolt support has a reinforcement above the bolt hole.
Looks like I had thought about it....


At last I tacked the cowl cover back in place....


Next time is finish welding the cowl and grind everything a little smoother. And hope to get the driverside floorpiece ready.
After that its only some small parts to be repaired.

So Niels A., if you read this......I'm going pretty fast

Oh, do I use too many pictures for you guys and girls???