61 Ford Quarter Panel Fix

[Flop]

Got a new car in the shop today.customers of course. fixing some rust and takin the little dent outa the quarter panel. car was involved in a hit and run

hmmmm why is it rusting right there?

ahhhhh the old brace !! didnt get a pic but descaled the brace shot it with some rusto primer and some paint

found some previous damage and an oil can, lovely.did some shrinking to those so i could work the panel since thats not in my scope of work at the moment and got the patch half way in.

 

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finished up the patch and did some more shrinking to the stretched area

here comes the fun part!!

well i gotta save a bunch of the OG quarter because the guy on the hamb i bought the replacement quarter didnt tell me it was rusted out after i asked him how is it behind the trim....

bottle jack and some angle iron and you have yourself a quarter panel fixer!!

after about 20 mins of work

surprised how nice all the heavy damage is coming out!!

id say i have about 70% of the bottom saved below the trim line more work on that tomorrow and then get the bumper off!!

 

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set the decklid gap on the good quarter so i wont have a huge mess when i put the new one on..shows how much the hit sunk the quarter down

burning the lead out dont wanna grind that **** and breath it in...

first time its seen the light of day in 40 + years

bumper off

next drillin out all the spot welds..

tomorrow gonna get the quarter off and prep the new quarter for install!!!

 

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did some more dent removal..got all i could get out ..dont have anything to pull with so this will have to do

but here just like he said the quarter panel started to raise back up

uhhhhhhohhhh

damage to the inners

supposidly ready to go on the car quarter...i hate to see the one he said was to rusty to work with...

 

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got the new rusty quarter sitting right about where it should. still waitin for the bottom patch before i do any serious tack welds

yes more dents to get out. these 61 ford must have ben popular cars to dent up or sumthin.

 

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got a bunch of welding done in a short amount of time.

as smooth as i can get it.

tops done now onto the side

this is all mig welded.. tig would put extra time into the job and thats not in his pocket book

as far as i got today now i gotta head to the regular job...that was about 3 and a half hours worth of welding grinding and hammering

 

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next gotta finish off the back and start on the decklid gaps

well a lot more work today with big results

got the decklid to fit pretty nice still needs some tweaking but its it 85 percent there which i cant be happier about!! that was my biggest worry in this project..

not perfect but they will be when it goes out the door

man was i happy when i backed up and everything lined up!!!!

and we are done

 

[Ole Don]

Fantastic work. Where are you?

 

[STEVE1103]

Great job, lots of no-how to do that!

 

[Bob 37]

Very nice!

 

[Flop]

thanks don im in pittsburgh pennsylvania.

thanks again guys!

 

[Merlin]

Killer work!

 

[phartman]

Wow! You can work on my '61 anytime. Very nice.

Pete

 

[oldbugger]

Thats really nice work, Thanks for the pics