Recent content by Stev

Hung the car from the lift using ratchet straps. The load is very light, it's just to keep everything square. Not sure this is what the engineers had in mind when designing the roof rack but i appreciate it regardless. Cutting out the last of the floor now, the seam it welds too looks pretty...

It is under a lift. I could ratchet strap the roof rack across the lift to take the weight while i remove the angle iron. The actual weight is borne by the rockers, the jacks are just there to keep everything square. Terrible idea but all too plausible... Also looking at the donor that angle...

So order of operations thing here, it looks like the best call is to put the tail light filler panel in before the tub as it ties into the inside of the tailgate sill. However, the original panel is underneath two pieces of angle iron. The upper one is part of the floor and coming out, so ok...

Well at this point I can't just put it all back. Only way out is forward.

I keep intending to get the tub in but more and more problems keep revealing themselves. This corner isn't too bad but almost every join needs repairing. Made it all up and welded it in but it took all day. I suffer.

Probably for the US. I've seen a factory slant 6 polara sedan on craigslist here. My takeaway was only 9% of Polaras came with limited slip, including mine. Thank you uncle allister for spending the money on Big Blue.

Got some pinholes to fill and some more grinding to do, but so far so good. At this point I've made the whole thing from the body line down from scratch, piecemeal. Doing the right thing the wrong way as usual.

Hey it's only metal. It's just swearing and unspeakable violence between you and your goal, only a question of how much. Splurged on a new helmet because the current one i have was craigslist garbage that kept flash blinding me. Onwards

Fabbed up the other part. Took a template from the left side and boy howdy look how much thicker the factory fury panel is. I guess no matter how bad my work is, it won't be worse than how it was. And I've been around this car 28 years and never noticed before now. She'll never win a concourse...

Still going. Mostly patching patching patching. I kept finding more and more issues to fix in the tub. Hopefully I'll get the tub in this week and I can start getting the floor in, summer's creeping up pretty quickly all of a sudden. Though I'm starting a new job soon and dealing with that is...

Patched the bottom of the tub. Deleted the body plug. I suspect those only exist to drain the zinc during the galvanizing dip at the factory and I don't expect to need that anytime soon. Still more work to do but that's a tomorrow problem.

I made grandpa a promise. Ain't backing down on that.

Quick disconnect quarter panel. Very forward thinking! I think i've joined a club of a chosen few. I might be the only person ever to extract the inner quarter from a c body wagon. If anyone else has, I've never seen evidence for it. Gonna start test fitting the wheelhouse now. There's a spot...

Choices were made. Got all the welds on the inside too. Managed to get where the inner quarter meets the D pillar without molesting my brace. Might have to make another access hole for the top 3 welds, hopefully not. Ideally i can just reach it with a grinder and bust it with a chisel...

And I just realized I forgot to paint under where the rocker joints to the sheet metal. oops.