Ed & Chuck's excellent (?!?!?!!!) adventure

**CobraII** · 02-10-2010, 10:58 AM

Thanks to Ed (Ares), my '69 Cutlass is finally getting some attention to the body.

We're starting on the passenger side. This shot shows the inner wheelwell rot, and a portion of the trunk rot. It's hard to see, but follow the roll bar to the bottom, and you can see some of the holes over the floor brace. Second shot shows the back lip of the trunk, the patch/mud we found and cut out, and the inner wheelwell deterioration.

Outer wheelwell/quarter opening rot:

Quarter and outer wheelwell removed shows how bad the trunk and quarter extension (the mangled piece hanging) are:

**CobraII** · 02-10-2010, 11:03 AM

Ed welding the outer wheelwell:

He fabbed up a nice patch for the inner wheelwell front:

10 minutes after he hadn't welded anything, we wondered why there was still smoke coming up the trunk lid. Lesson learned: always remove everything on the other side of what you weld. And always give yourself at least 15 minutes after welding something before leaving the garage.

**CobraII** · 02-10-2010, 11:08 AM

Edit for the above pic... that was the back seat, upper portion. The welding heat had the padding smoldering.

Trunk floor getting prepped:

And new floor piece in:

Ed fabbed up the triangular piece, goes from under the taillight into the trunk, to meet up the trunk floor and quarter extension:

**CobraII** · 02-10-2010, 11:10 AM

We were all set to hang the quarter this past Saturday, but Mother Nature, well, you know what she did...

All the pics are on the album, and they're pretty much in order so far. Thanks Ed for all the help. I'm excited about how much more solid the car is becoming.

http://s138.photobucket.com/albums/q...20replacement/

**Martin0660** · 02-10-2010, 12:38 PM

Might loose 2/10th's due to adding metal back in place of voids :D

Nice work guys!

**CobraII** · 02-10-2010, 02:00 PM

I figured it would work out... less air resistance with no hole-y metal! :D

**Martin0660** · 03-29-2010, 06:00 PM

Originally Posted by CobraII

I figured it would work out... less air resistance with no hole-y metal! :D

The deeper this goes ... I am still standing by a net loss by putting all that metal back :D

**Ares** · 03-29-2010, 08:29 PM

I'd get more done if someone...cough...CHUCK...would stop removing the body filler when doing some minor wet sanding

**Ares** · 03-29-2010, 08:31 PM

Originally Posted by Martin0660

The deeper this goes ... I am still standing by a net loss by putting all that metal back :D

Seriously the car will be lighter with metal. You had to see the amount of body filler that was removed. Aluminum foil buried in filler was someones idea of fixing rust holes. Stuff was heavy.

**Martin0660** · 03-29-2010, 09:24 PM

Originally Posted by Ares

I'd get more done if someone...cough...CHUCK...would stop removing the body filler when doing some minor wet sanding

Ohhhhh... so he is one of those. So, is he more of a hinderance to forward progress "helping" you work on his car, or just standing there watching over your shoulder :D

Originally Posted by Ares

Stuff was heavy.

;) Just trying to stroke Chuck some ;) Another question, can this be considered a reverse excorcism??? After-all you are removing all that is holey :D

**cam303** · 02-10-2010, 03:21 PM

Originally Posted by Martin0660

Might loose 2/10th's due to adding metal back in place of voids :D

Nice work guys!

Simple solution....Use hole saw to remove metal in other places..

**2001GTTT** · 02-10-2010, 04:21 PM

sweet, make sure you post up pics when shes done

**Sonic03snake** · 02-10-2010, 04:29 PM

Nice job so far!!!!!

**Ares** · 02-10-2010, 06:45 PM

Yah we completely forgot about the back seat. Lets just say whatever GM used for padding(wasn't foam) really REALLY stinks when it's smolders.

I still need to rebuild trunk floor along the wheel well infront of the down tube on his rollbar. Get quarter on and finish rebuilding back of inner wheelhouse and finish welding trunk floor/extension in place. Then it's rinse and repeat on driver side along with few other minor spots of missing metal. 22gauge sheet metal so nice to work with.

Now if it would stop snowing, work could continue.

**Balaska347** · 02-10-2010, 06:58 PM

Looks great guys. Ed I didnt know you were handy with metal work. The ol girl definitely need some TLC.

**Ares** · 02-10-2010, 07:12 PM

Originally Posted by Balaska347

Looks great guys. Ed I didnt know you were handy with metal work. The ol girl definitely need some TLC.

Yah I've helped my brother on his '67 Mustang, '66 Mustang and '67 Camaro, My '72 Cutlass and my dad's ladder racks on his truck.

**AdamantiumSilvr** · 02-10-2010, 09:02 PM

Lookin good gentz!

**PaxtonShelby** · 02-10-2010, 10:22 PM

Looking good fellas! I'm jealous....the only machinery I've played with lately is my damn snow blower....

**trbofox** · 02-10-2010, 10:36 PM

Looking good. i just got done doing drivetrain on a 69 Cutlass S convertible with auto and air, spent hours and hours finding missing parts for the thing. if I can help at all give me a holler. Good luck with it.