Category: Rust Repair

Fixed the passenger side rocker panel today. While trying to decide the best way to tackle this job, I decided to call my neighbor Gary over for some advice since he has some experience with this sort of thing. He advised that I not even replace the panel, but repair the original instead. The reproduction… Continue reading Passenger Side Rocker Panel

Installed the floor pans today. Still have to do the one under the rear seat, which shouldn’t take much time. The new patch panels fit well and look pretty close to the originals on the other side of the car, but the embossing is not as crisp. Why is it that they can’t make them… Continue reading Floor Pans

While anticipating the arrival of the new patch panels for the floors, rockers and lower rear quarter panels, I was looking at the body brace that is at the very end of the car under the trunk floor. This is the brace that houses the rear-most pair of body mounts. I knew that this brace… Continue reading Rear body brace rusted out

Repaired some of the rust-out that was under the drivers seat. This panel isn’t reproduced, so ya gotta just make’m. Here’s what it looked like before: Yikes! and here it is after the crust was cut away and patched in with new metal. It isn’t done yet, obviously but it’s a start. The brace under… Continue reading Under-seat rust patch