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today may be the final day in getting

all these panels to fit my wrecked car

I'm talking about swap meet parts like

doors fenders hoods deck lids all coming

together on a rec table to build the

foundation of what is yet to come

today is huge

the right time buying a wreck tub like

this is generally not a good idea and

it's not for everybody but if you are a

DIY er like Mike like myself then this

can be a great way to get into a classic

car for a lot less money and enjoy the

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you very much alright I have a clean

workbench for a change which is awesome

so let's get started

I had to put a little relief cut right

here in order to get this gap in the

front even this piece here was just

unmovable because the way it had a

corner in it so unfortunately I had to

cut this I'm gonna take well did get the

paint off here I'm gonna take weld it

and you it'll you'll never know

I'm able to get to the backside of this

part because when I take the door off I

can treat the inside for for rust using

epoxy primer and some topcoat

okay here's that relief cut and it's

it's collapsed down to where now I can

come back and weld this this is the gap

I wanted I got an even gap all the way

along the bottom of the door

woohoo okay now I'm going to take the

door off so I can access this bottom

here for welding but before I do I just

want to take a picture of sort of where

I need to add material to the door

because I'm gonna do that at the same

time so right up to here and this is

good this is this is three four

millimeters it only starts to deviate

right here at this corner so from here

till about here I'm going to be adding

lead so I'm gonna put that on there with

a sharpie and also reference this video

if I need to go back and and look at

where I was

I'm just adding a small weld bead just

forward of the same section I did last

week

all righty I got the door off the car

and I'm getting ready to strip the paint

off this front leading edge here so I

can do some letting but one thing I

wanted to show you is that this has been

stripped along the bottom and there is a

little bit of rust so if you look really

closely I've cleaned out these rust pits

they're very tiny but this is kind of a

deep rough spit this is where the skin

hems over and it's double sided here so

what I'm gonna do is use the TIG welder

and kind of fill up these little craters

now I've cleaned them out really well

with wire brush on the angle grinder and

also my pneumatic wire brush so I'm

going to try to weld these

okay I tried to show you the shots under

the welding helmet and this is the

result of filling up those two pits with

with filler rod so I'm gonna go over

this with a you know my my cutoff tool

just to grind it down a little bit and

then finally my angle grinder with some

80 grit and this should come back to

just flat metal so there you go that's

just another advantage of TIG welding

it's got a lot of versatility gonna

definitely do you know thin stuff but

this works for me so let's move on okay

here's the result of what I did down

here in the bottom remember I I slip

this with the cutoff wheel and then I

just welded that back together this has

already been ground smooth and this is

finished there was also a little crack

right here I don't know if I have a

before picture off to look in the video

but I fixed the crack and we have a

pretty tight gap here still need to do a

little bodywork to the to the to the

fender but this joint right here is

looking really nice okay the reason I

took the door off to begin with was to

clean off the paint and do the letting

on this leading edge

hopefully there's enough material on

here I mean definitely needs to be filed

down but hopefully after filing this

we'll get that gap we want towards the

front

okay as you can see the door is now on

the car and this is looking pretty good

so it's an erratic gap here but it's

much tighter so this is gonna work out

really nice as it comes down so right

here it's actually binding and touching

so I got a little too much down low but

everything else looks to be pretty nice

let me get my gap checker okay here's

the three millimeter tool and it won't

go in which is great it will go in right

there this is about four to five so no

go almost right there

goes right here this is three this is

about four and then everything from here

down is is very tight so I'm going to

start filing this and making it more

even so we can get a consistent gap

all right after just a little bit of

filing this gap is looking really nice

this is three millimeters maybe a little

bit less on this upper arched area but

it is looking pretty good and from the

side view profile you know going down is

is really nice there's a little bit of a

kind of caved in area down here so I'm

gonna take the door off I'm gonna do a

little more filing here on the lead but

trying to remove this kind of caved in

portion and also this dent here on the

fender and then this side will be done

I'm using a paintless dent tool to

massage out a dent in the rocker panel

here

to the hacksaw blade does a good job

defining the gap but it can only go down

so deep so now I'm going to take care of

all this lower stuff while the door is

off and just tidy up this edge so that

it can be painted later on now I have a

driver's door that fits and a passenger

door and the deck lid and a hood

well the workbench was clean oh okay

I've repositioned the car so I can get

access to the front I want to revisit

this section where the grill and the

turn signals meet the bumper because

when I did the back date on this fender

and I was doing so on the bench I

realized that there was a large gap here

between the grill and the turn signal

lens and I thought I would address it

before paint and so the time is now I

want to get this done this week so I'm

gonna put the bumper on now and try to

line everything up it's probably gonna

require some cutting all right so here's

the issue I'm having with this side the

grill either lines up with the top of

the fender and has a nice gap across the

front like this or it lines up with the

horizontal line in the bumper like this

but then it leaves a large gap here at

the top

okay all I've done here is I've just cut

that corner where the turn signal box is

attached to the fender and it's really

relaxed everything to allow things to

fit horizontal I mean this is just how I

want it so now I'm dealt I'm dealing

with the you know empty space there at

the top where I cut it I need to fill

that up and I'm also dealing with I

think you can see over here this gap

right here just got a little bit tighter

only because the grille is rotated

horizontal again so I'm probably gonna

have to tune up this leading or this

edge here on the side I'm gonna have to

tune that up a little bit as well to get

the gap back

okay I have this sort of arbitrary strip

here cut out and I'm tacking it in place

and kind of cutting and forming it as I

go so this is really flexible I'm just

wrapping it around filling up the gap

and welding from both sides here's where

it gets too narrow I'm gonna have to

take my time just filling up that hole

but it's doable it's just you know

welding welding welding here's a quick

progress check put the lens back in just

make sure that spacing and the

horizontal position is right

so as you can see behind me in this

video things are just now starting to

line up which is a great sign you know

this was once an abandoned project left

in Nevada desert nobody wanted it

people parted it out now it has just a

little glimmer of hope it's starting to

look like a car again and it's on its

way up so my method the DIY method is a

trade off there's typically three things

you can have quick high-quality and

cheap so you can only kind of pick two

my method is definitely the high quality

how I tried to do it as best I can and

cheap so you know you can pay someone to

do this kind of work but it would be

very cost prohibitive which is why I

started this video by saying it's

generally not recommended to buy a strip

shell like this and try to bring it back

to life the heavy lifting is is now done

meaning this is a strong foundation to

start building this thing up also in

addition to getting this thing shaped

shipshape for the road again we've done

a lot of modifications this is somewhere

between an RS clone and kind of an

outlaw

so the modifications to backdate this to

a 73 we're also a big portion portion at

a time and like I mentioned early in in

this video series these cars can be

purchased for a lot less money than a 73

and the work that I've done here to make

it look like a 73 to some degree of

quality is gonna pay off big all right

here's the final alignment of the turn

signal and horn grill and metal

finishing around that top edge that was

spliced in I'm really happy with how it

turned out I think it was worth it so

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