Nz 70 rr

[NZ 70 RR]

More great work

Been slow with updates, sorry.
Tue 10th - Barry(panelguy) cut some metal and took it into town to his ex-work and used their folder to shape it into a filler panel support brace. He brought it home and did the final shaping.
Next he patched up the other rust hole in rear window frame.
On to the drivers front guard. It is a replacement one off a Satellite so had holes for the side moldings. Barry welded these and then dollied out a dent in the nose of the guard. Couple of small dents later and guard finished.
Passenger guard, needs lot more work. Ended day by dollying out a large dent.

Thur 12 - Barry spent the whole day on the passg guard. It had 3 dents in the side and 1 on top. It needed a new metal patch to the skin where guard attaches to sill, and one higher up.

Fri 13 - Finished guard in morning. Drivers door next. This needed patchs to both bottom corners. Outside only on 1 and inside/outside on other. He also cut out the damaged metal where mirror sits and replaced with new metal. We will drill holes later. Finished all this before days end so started on Pasg door. Bigger job. Bottom of door skin needed to be replaced so he cut 2in off. A section of the inside was also removed. He cut some new metal and took it with him.

Tue 17 - Barry stopped at his ex-work on way out and folded the edges of the new metal. He fitted the inside patch and then paneled out dents in the skin while he had good access to them. He finished day by starting to weld the outside skin patch in. He welded the corners first and then did small sections at a time on outside. He had drilled holes and used self tapers to hole the skin and patch in place. Then used grinder with cutting wheel to get small gap to weld. 80% done by end of day. I cut some rusty metal out of driver A-pillar and made patch for it. Also opened up and cleaned rust of pasg A-pillar just below front windshield.

Wed 18 - Barry finished the door. Excellent result, really pleased.
Repaired the pasg A-pillar and then the drivers. Final 2hrs of day he started to make a patch for the rear tail section, pasg side.

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Lower tail panel needs work, do this after blasting.

 

[snakeyes]

well you have been busy keep at it and keep posting your updates thanks for sharing :blob1:

 

[roadrunnerman]

Barry has Been a Busy Body and has done some nice repair work.

 

[Basket case]

excellent!

 

[NZ 70 RR]

Bit more

After a big push repairs have slowed up. Barry has been out and welded in the driver floor patch. He also tidied up some small holes in floor.
Next time he is out the car would have been blasted and we will be fitting new boot floor. Just wanting for a reply to rent a blast booth. Friend and an experienced blaster will do the job but his place of work doesn't have a booth big enough for the car on its rotissorie. Plan to do it as soon as possible.
I have opened up the top of the rail the leaf spring attaches to so can blast it.
Have also removed some more trunk floor where it attaches to tail panel.
Used spot weld remover drill bit to get driver upper trunk gutter off and cut the passg. on off. Both will clean up to be reused.
In process of removing spare wheel bracket and the 2 brackets the gas tank struts attach to.
Have put my AMD order in . Found a NZ agent and prices as good as I could bring panels in for with the bonus of no risk of damage etc.

 

[snakeyes]

busy busy busy looking keep us updated thanks posting more updates :headbang:

 

[NZ 70 RR]

clean body

Been spending lots of time stripping car clean ready for blasting tomorrow. Getting a coat of epoxy at same time.

 

[MoparMitch]

Looks like you're making great progress on that project. Maybe I missed it , but what color will it be?

 

[NZ 70 RR]

Blast

Looks like you're making great progress on that project. Maybe I missed it , but what color will it be?

Color wise I am leaning towards original Ivy Green, BUT, maybe an orange shade.

Loaded car last night and took it to blasters at 8am this morning. Great guy doing the blast, knew what not to do. Donny had given me some great advice on how to prep the car so blaster would have an easy job. Took him about 2hrs. Made a great job. I took the photos at 12pm, they were blowing it free of sand after lunch then priming it in epoxy. Pick it up tomorrow morning. Be nice to have a clean car in carport. Will give the carport a well overdue clean.

 

[Ron 73]

Slow and right is better then speedy and bad! Thanks for the updates, looking great!

 

[snakeyes]

it is amazing what you uncover after hitting them with some material:blob1:

 

[NZ 70 RR]

Epoxyed

Picked her up from blasters today. Epoxy looks great, amazing the difference one solid color makes.

Put my AMD order in on monday so hopefully will have that about Xmas time. International shipping takes a while.
When panel guy gets back from holiday he will put the new trunk floor in.

 

[usaroadrunner]

looks very nice, keep up the nice work.

 

[dickdale]

:headbang:

 

[747mopar]

Very nice, a clean slate is always encouraging to work on. Hey, why don't you shoot some pics of New Zealand for us "it looks amazing down they're from what I've see".

 

[roadrunnerman]

You're right, 1 coat of color always looks good. You know it will protected now since you got it down to bare metal under the epoxy.

 

[Dennis H]

Just discovered this thread. God Bless you for saving this legendary Mopar. People with the skill and patience to do this have my respect. I just want to drive them! All the best. Keep the pics coming.

 

[Ron 73]

Wow, That looks great! You really have this one coming your way!! Keep up the great work your doing and enjoy...

 

[BigBlock61]

Lookin good Nz

 

[NZ 70 RR]

Been busy but slack updating my build.

Welded some small patches. Making up brackets to repair rear window corners.

Borrowed a small blaster and cleaned up roof, driver quarter and as many parts that could fit in my makeshift blast cabinet and curtained booth. Very slow but happy with results.

Had friend gently bast my doors and front guards, then I epoxied them.

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Don't know what happened to the photo order, bit mixed up for some reason.

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Hopefully I can edit and reorder these photos.