A '62 has to get back on the road

[Braunschweiger]

Thank you for your words, I always have to walk longer distances to reach my goal, but the goal is within sight.

[Grizz1963]

You really do knock iy out the park Harald.

Looks beautiful.


Just to hijack the thread a bit….

My friend Dennis built his 66 on a 2015 Nascar truck with all the bits.

[Braunschweiger]

Thank you, yes I was already looking at the pictures with envy, a completely different level, beautiful truck, very nice details, say hello to me.

[Braunschweiger]

It goes on, I wrote that the Hood still had fine Scratches from wet sanding, it didn't let me rest, it didn't get better with polishing, I wet sanded it again with 1500, 3000 and 6000 and then polished it once, now I am satisfied and will polish the hood when it is assembled. At the moment it's very sluggish, my mom was sick and we were always driving back and forth, I had promised my wife to help remodel her sewing room. But I started with a side panel of the truck bed.

Annoying is the quarter panel doesn't fit, the flange edge is about 50° wrong, which I had to correct and the corners don't fit properly, that was also adjusted.

[Braunschweiger]

There was still a patch for the lower wheel arches.

[Grizz1963]

Mann, ich bin soooo sauer auf die schlechte Qualität von Patch- und Reproduktionsartikeln. Wir alle wissen, dass es genauso viel Arbeit ist, einen guten Artikel zu machen, wie es ist, einen schlechten Artikel zu machen. Manchmal möchte ich den Unternehmen Blut abnehmen, die diese Produkte herstellen, die dann viele Stunden zum Aussortieren benötigen. Sie werden es jedoch sicherlich alles richtig machen. Wie immer liebe ich es, Ihre Arbeit und Arbeitsmoral zu beobachten.
Rian.

[Braunschweiger]

Thanks for your kind words, I agree, it's annoying to adapt the bad parts, but there are no alternatives, we all manage to build awesome trucks out of them over and over again.

[Braunschweiger]

It's slowly Progressing, I had to make a new Spacer Strut, because where the Strut was welded to the side part, the Wheel Arches are also rusted through, so Patches are also needed.
The Quarter Panel is Welded in, the weld seam I lead filled this time, well.... the rest was smoothed out with "Lead" on 2K Epoxid Basic.
Now I can put Epoxy Primer on it tomorrow.

[Braunschweiger]

Vorbereitung für Epoxid Grundierung.

[Braunschweiger]

Applied the epoxy primer today.

[Grizz1963]

Oooohhhh My Word !!

That looks amazing Harald.

Well done.

[88Stanger]

damn! looking great!!!

[Braunschweiger]

The Hood is assembled, I had to exchange the Hinges for new ones, the old Hinges pushed the Hood up, after it was closed, now everything fits.

[62bagger]

Looks great. The body work is impressive.

[Grizz1963]

Well done.

These last photos look almost like a model set up.

[Braunschweiger]

It could almost be a model.
Today I wanted to sanding the primer, it hasn't dried through yet, maybe it's a bit too thick, tomorrow I'll put the infrared heater over it.

[Braunschweiger]

Today there was a Setback..... I put the Infrared Heater over the Panel. After some time there were Bubbles on the edge of the Bodyfiller, the Temperature was 50°/ approx.125 degrees Fahrenheit. This happened in 2 places, I could simply peel off the areas with the spatula. The rest was fine, something was wrong with the hardener and filler. I started all over again and filled with new Bodyfiller the spots.
#@€#% happens.
Better now than later.

[Grizz1963]

Unfortunately as you say….. this happens.

And rather now, than later in a year or more.

Good luck with correcting it.

[Braunschweiger]

I'm sure I made a mistake when mixing the Hardener and Body Filler, so today we made something nice for it.
My Buddy Sold his 60 Apache to Hamburg and took it to the Buyer, I drove with him and took it back, nice Road Trip and great Weather.

[Braunschweiger]

Corrected my mistake, new body filler, everything sanded and new based primer surfacer.
Oh boy, you can make life difficult for yourself.
The head part was done at the same time.
Let dry and sand again.

[Braunschweiger]

Now it's time for the right panel,
I wonder if the guys took part in Auto Cross with it.
The panel is a Challenge, let's start with it and then see what comes out.

[Braunschweiger]

Began to straighten the deformation.

[SkinnyG]

I enjoyed using a slapping file (I make my own) and a shrinking disc to get out the fine warbles.





And it's amazing how much defect a good coat of Slick Sand can hide (grin).

(I hate doing bodywork)

[Braunschweiger]

Amazing what there is, I can get a slapping file. A shrinking disc is fairly unknown here in Europe, I first watched it on YouTube, great tool, I found one who built a shrinking disc out of a cocking Pot Lid, very interesting, thanks Sir.

[Braunschweiger]

As long as the parts recommended by SkinnyG are not available, it will continue old school, the long dent is fil up quite, well I also like the curvature quite a lot, but there are still large flat dents that should come out, started at the back.