wagon goes under the knife

crazyboutwagons

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well the wagon got dropped off at the body shop two weeks ago for rust repair on the quarters and spare tire well. having bottom of both sides from woodgrain down repainted as well as the drivers fender which the paint was all blistered for some reason. drivers side is done and primed and almost ready for paint. car is looking great cant wait for it to be done.i got a lot of things to do on it. ill post pics once i figure out how can anyone help with that.
 
It couldnt be more easy then what is here........once you hit reply scroll down just below your reply box and you'll see manage attachments, click on that and take it from there. I figured it out so its built for dummies up.
 
pics of the surgery going on on the 68 sport suburban. when finished there will be no more rust issues every visable spot is being cut out and new metal welded in . i paid a visit the other day drivers side is finished and ready for paint. work has started on pass side will have pics next week when i go back.

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Nice 68 wagon. Are you going to repaint the whole car or just repaired area's. What motor is in it?
 
wagon under the knife

car is being painted from the woodgrain down on both sides and tailgate is being replaced with a rustfree one from south dakota.that i bought from Moores and had shipped to Pa. the one on the car appears to have been hit at some point and the body work was cracking and rusting on both sides and the bottom was rotted thru in 2 places from the optional rear window washer system not draining properly. car is a 383 with new edelbrok 4 barrel.
 
Nice. It looks like a real rare paint combo. Can't wait to see her done.
 
Bodywork on Slabs is a whole lot easier than the other generations.
Keyword: SLAB. As in flat; without compound curves...
 
For most of the car, yes, but the areas that I marked on this '67. They are areas where a concave area meets a convex area on a curve.

They are the worst areas on any vehicle I have ever done, and I have done bodywork for a living for over 15 years. A couple bad strokes even just sanding primer in this area would show.

The concave areas actually kind of suck to block also, as the center of your block never touches the car.

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Why do I see '68 marker lights/inset fender emblems, and '67 quarter panels/tail lights? Did they carry the same body for both years in the wagons?

As far as the slab side statements I guess I should add that the concave side was strictly the '67-'68 Chrysler only thing.

The front clip was pretty decent, until the guy that was supposed to sandblast the inner fender wells and the radiator support, did the inside of the fenders as well, and warped them... Yay...Thanks.

Anyone that is thinking of doing any sandblasting, be careful not to do any outer body panels, inside or out. The older cars were heavy guage, but not that heavy.

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Why do I see '68 marker lights/inset fender emblems, and '67 quarter panels/tail lights? Did they carry the same body for both years in the wagons?


Anyone that is thinking of doing any sandblasting, be careful not to do any outer body panels, inside or out. The older cars were heavy guage, but not that heavy.


I see 68 quarters......


And after 15 years of bring a body guy you would sandblasting is needed with a delicate touch on car metal, another media would be better..... and I dont do body work:eusa_whistle:
 
There are several types of media/silica sand that you can use for blasting, but as I already stated, it should not be used on outer sheet metal.

Blasting is great for frames, differentials, the bottom of vehicles, floorpans, the inside of pickup boxes, doorjams, fenderwells, radiator supports etc. The person that did the blasting for me didn't stop at what I asked him to do, and messed up by doing the inside of the fenders.

The '68 Fury and VIP body lines top and bottom, leading from the front, go straight back and pass by the body lines from the rear without intersecting. The rear of the '68 quarter is pretty well verticle.

The '67 Fury and VIP have one continuous body line that raises behind the front doors on the top line, and the lower body line is pretty much straight. The rear of the '67 quarter is angled down to the bumper.

If it's cheating to have owned both... I cheated, and therefore see '67 body lines. What I don't know is if they carried the '67 wagon body through '68, thus my question.

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I still see a 68 wagon, cheating? No. More knowledgeable on a 67/8 fury? Yes. Right? No. Wrong? Yes.


The white Fury in the photo, unless there is two of the same car, my dad looked into buying that four years ago. It is in amazing shape.
 
"Why do I see '68 marker lights/inset fender emblems, and '67 quarter panels/tail lights? Did they carry the same body for both years in the wagons?"

I originally posed this question for the owner of the wagon, or someone else that could simply answer it correctly, not to be incorrectly insulted. There's nothing incorrect in my observation, or question.
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"I see 68 quarters......"

"And after 15 years of bring a body guy you would sandblasting is needed with a delicate touch on car metal, another media would be better..... and I dont do body work."

Or school work evidently...I have no idea what dialect or dysfunctional speach pattern this is, but with the help of a team of translators, I understood it to be another unwarranted insult.
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"I still see a 68 wagon, cheating? No. More knowledgeable on a 67/8 fury? Yes. Right? No. Wrong? Yes."

You got the last two questions wrong.... Again, there was nothing wrong with my observations or my question.

From my own research, I found that they did use the '67 wagon body on the '68.

Your changing the true intent of your "68 quarters" comment countering my question of seeing '67 quarters on a labeled '68 into... " I still see a 68 wagon" in attempt to make your incorrect statement correct after the fact is gradeschool at best.

You and anyone that reads this knows better. It's not a big deal... Maybe resist your urge to insult once in a while, and admit the occasional misfire. You busted my chops when I was wrong, and I'm just returning the favor.

Pretty sure the white '68 was from Minnesota, and it was a really nice car.


Have a good one,
 
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I wouldnt even know where to start........you need to loosen up, if you ever head east they'll eat you alive.

How was I incorrect? Its a 68, thats it. I said I saw a 68 and it is. So they used 67 quarters on a 68 wagon from the factory with 68 markers. Nothing incorrect about what I said. No insults intended.....:poke:

The 68 Fury I was referring to was in Indiana in 2008

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A place to start would be acknowledging that both of your posts #12 and #14 are antagonistic, and I replied to your first one being completely pleasant. Then you put your jabs out there again, that is the limit of my tolerance, and I was not bent out of shape about it, I was just being thorough, and even stated "It's no big deal".

As far as loosening up, I don't ever provoke anyone out of the blue, so why the hell should I accept it coming in my direction. I will never be accepting of unwarranted BS, it's not going to happen no matter where I go, and no one is going to eat me alive, you can be damn sure of that.

I always treat people very well until they give me a reason not to. Being east or west, people are going to be a product of their nature more so than their environment. The surface rudeness may be a common place back east, but the people beyond their outer crust are going to be no better or worse than anywhere else. If you are saying you're proud of people being rude and inconsiderate as a whole, it would be moronic. It seems in any heavily populated areas the people will be less likely to be outwardly friendly to anyone they don't know. Your chances of saying "Hi, how are you doing" to a mugger or a serial killer are much greater than mine, so it's understandable.

How you were incorrect again, was your statement of "I see '68 quarters" that you later changed to "I see a '68 wagon", which if you were honest, you would admit you didn't know of a difference between the '67-'68 quarters or worse it was simply intended to be a provacative statement. My observations tied to the question of both years sharing the same body could not have been more clear. If you truly knew they were the same, you could have stated it. "No insults intended".... Really?..... See posts #12 and #14... Who was that then? Hmmmm?..... You do realize that other people can read also, right? A need to provoke people and denying wrongdoing could be a sign of insecurity. :thinker:

I'm pretty sure this horse is dead and beaten into dust by now, and please know this is all trivial to me, no hurt feelings intended what so ever, and there have been none taken, I'm just an intolerant jackass. In my world of cartoon balls, the blue ball in your last post would take the stick away from the yellow ball and the next ball to find it would need rubber gloves.

I lost both of my parents and a sister in 3 consecutive years when I was in my 20's, and in my funk, became intolerant, pushed away a pretty decent live in girlfriend of 5 years, and wrote off 2 other siblings that showed their true hideous colors after my parents were gone, so believe me... this correspondance is trivial to me.

I can't find any differences in the '68 Sport Fury from your pictures to mine, except the plates and the wheels, and I don't recall anything about the interior when I saw the car. It may be possible that it is the same car. The picture that I took was in Farmington MN, last June at a Mopar event, so it could be that it found a home further west.
 
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Only the '68 non-wagons had a different quarter than the other three.
The 67 & the 68 WAGONS used the same quarter.
The 67 & 68 non-wagons used different quarters.
They added a side marker lamp onto the 67 wagon quarter for 1968.
Period. End of story. I have spoken.

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