72 Gs-350 Convertible Project

[J-rod]

Belongs to a customer and I didn't take picture's of it before pulling it apart, by I think you get the picture by the looks of these............

[J-rod]

I got my work cut out for me but this is nothing compared to some i've done before............

[J-rod]

just few more to show the worst of it...........





AND ON THE UPSIDE I DON'T HAVE TO TOUCH THE ENGINE BAY HE ALREADY DID WHAT HE WANTED.

[Len]

Boy, those pictures sure remind me of why I stopped using chemical stripper.

[J-rod]

Yeah the stuff is a mess but i'm done with that now, and on to my grinding disc. And then my sandblaster to get the rust out. Should be a fun project.

[J-rod]

OK a quick little photo update:

[J-rod]

Now after the blasting and the grinding was done I sanded and did some cutting:

[J-rod]

More pix's of progress:



Butt welding will be in order for this patch.

[J-rod]

Same goes for the hood and one of the fenders, strippr and sanding were in order:



I'm taking a few days off this project because I have some insurance work coming into the shop this week so I will update again when I get back on it.

[carcrazy]

Coming along quite nicely!!

[J-rod]

Well the GS project got put on hold since the customer had to buy a bunch of parts. So hopefully it will be back in the shop soon, not this coming week but the week after.

So since there is no work, because it's dead around here, I brought my wagon in to pass the time. My daily driver.....

Here's a before shot:


And now, it's not done, so I will only tease you:

And one outside for now , more to come............

[Rustbelttrucker]

A question for you if you don't mind. I noticed on the driver side quarter that there is surface rust present on the inner structure up behind the qtr patch you installed. How will you address this? Won't this continue to rust from the inside out over time? Not criticizing, just wondering what you do.

[J-rod]

Well since the car is still in limbo none of that work has been done yet. Nothing is welded on yet. I always sandblast and epoxy all rusted areas. I will post pix's of what I do once the customer gives me the go ahead to start again.

[tschmitt]

Great job so far. I love all of the progress pics. Keep up the great work jrod.

[Rustbelttrucker]

Well since the car is still in limbo none of that work has been done yet. Nothing is welded on yet. I always sandblast and epoxy all rusted areas. I will post pix's of what I do once the customer gives me the go ahead to start again.

I figured you'd do that with the exposed areas and I see you only cut out what was necessary to make the repair. What I was wondering about was the surface rust that appears to run up around the wheel well and behind the repair. How you go about addressing these areas on repairs like this?

I like your wagon. On first glance I was thinking it was really clean and that you had just polished and detailed it. On my second look I see that you removed the woodgrain vinyl and two-toned it. Looks great! What did you do about the trim? Lets see some more pics.