68 firebird project from Pontiac
More small dings are found and filled. One in the rear quarter panel, 2 on the top of the front fender and 1 on the hood.
As you know with restoring 40-60 year old cars, the auto body work never seems to end. I found more dings on the hardtop to grind out. Then the new replacement passenger front fender came with a small defect with a small bulge poking up. I hammered it back down to prepare the fill. Thirdly, I began patching up the [...]
Several years ago, I applied a few coats of body filler over the welds on both of the rear quarter panels. I had thought it was roughed in but I was way wrong. The body putty needed to be filled in wider and several coats more, with back and forth sanding with the long flexible block. You need a long [...]
I tried my best to hammer the large dents back with no luck. So I proceeded to fill them in with body putty. There was quite a lot of back and forth between applying more coats and sanding . Like always, I ended up needing to sand a much wider area to feather it out smooth. Someone with more experience [...]
Those rusted front fender extension and valance panel still weren’t perfect so I sprayed them with the special build up filler primer, then sanded and repeated a couple times. Here is what they look like now .
I had mixed feelings on the vinyl lined hardtop that this model firebird came factory with but I decided to remove it. Everyone has their own preference. In my option, I didn’t like it because: it didn’t look modern it looked like a faux convertible that was trying to be something it wasn’t it was more prone to rust at [...]
