Finally another update!
The rusty parts cut out
Some more rust on the rocker and the front fender
Old new parts for the car. They will be sand blasted first before welding in the car
Does it leak? No!!! Right?
The rusty parts cut out
Some more rust on the rocker and the front fender
Old new parts for the car. They will be sand blasted first before welding in the car
Does it leak? No!!! Right?
Hi Ron, Looks like the folks are getting inspired! Gonna look great!! Steve
reminds me of a car I saw when I was in Mexico…a late-70’s Ford sedan, so COMPLETELY rusted there was no rear sheet metal at all.. the owner had jammed a 2x4 from frame to “C” pillar to hold roof up. If only I could find that photo…
Don’t get disheartened. Here in upstate N.Y. we call that minor rust. If your under stuff is ok you’ve got a solid one!! Look at her grill. She’s smilin. Steve
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It is not minor rust but it isn’t too bad! And we all keep smiling, everytime we go there we see a little progress. The guy doing the body work is very busy with their daily work but he works on our car as much as he can. And yesterday he started building again and that a lot more fun to see than tearing it apart 
He does great work so far and I am convinced that he will make it the car like new.
Some pictures:
new rear quarter
closer look
and closer
new part!
Marjo’s message
some damage on the front also
Ron, this man is a true artist. What stunning sheet metal work! Fabulous.
Dan
Yes, truly supurb sheet metal work, I had a concern about the rust in the inner panels, looks like that’s taken care of, can you tell us what he did to kill that rust.
Dick.
He does a great job so far but the credit for the panel ready to install goes to John Fowlie, he sold me two rear quarters that were very solid 
I know te guy can reproduce them but it would take a lot of time to make them and I bought the panels to save some time and money. He will have to fabricate all the other parts of the car himself and I am convinced he’ll do a fine job.
Dick, I haven’t been able to talk to him yesterday since he was working on another car and I don’t know what he did exactlly. More info will follow with the next update. I do know that he was surprised by the work of an American artist who did some “body work” on the car before it came to Europe. The part between the front wheel and the door was recreated with some kind of polyester and there was no metal there at all and you couldn’t see it. But it will be all solid metal when it comes home.
Ron
Yes, we have some polyester artists here in Florida, in fact a lot of them, we call thier establishments “BONDO BALLROOMS”.
Dick.
I had to remake my lower passenger side quater pannel it took a lot of effort without any real forming equipment but it can be done cheaply at home, first rule when undertaking a challenging bit of corrosion is DONT GET THE NEAREST HAMMER OUT AND KNOCK WHATS LEFT TO PIECES! because you have nothing to form from, dont take a body saw to your car unless you can find replacement pannels like these lower quaters i really wish there were a decent parts source for these old cars but then again they would be less of a challenge i suppose! Nice car by the way keep the photos coming. 
Dick, Matthew spoke with the body guy today and he told Matthew that there was very little surface rust on the inner panels. All he had to do was remove that with a wire brush and give it a protective spray.
OK, here are some new pictures.
new metal on the rear quarter inside
and outside
closer look
a 10 footer???
new and ready to install
it’ll never be so dirty again!
Cool!
Today I went to the shop to make some pictures but there has been no progress at all in the past week
I spoke with the owner for a while though and he hopes to have the body work finished by the end of next week I will try to make some time to visit them and show daily updates if work allows it.
Ron
I enjoyed being a part of helping him to get his valance too.
Well it took a while but here is my part of the story:
When I spoke with Tom about shipping the parts to Europe I thought it would be cheaper for Roland to have it shipped in a container than to use UPS or Fedex. Their prices are very high and you know for sure that you will have to pay a lot of tax when it is imported. We have to pay approximatly 25% of the value of the part and the shipping! But I know my friend Rik does make his own bils and he tries to help you where he can. So I contacted Roland first and asked him how he thought about driving up here to pick up the parts, he was very enthusiastic and asked me to arrange it for him. After that I called Rik and told him that he would be contacted by Tom. Tom did a great job in packing the valance and my trim parts, as Rik said the crate would have survived a nuclear blast When the parts arrived (April 2008) I got a phone call from Rik and I had to pick them up at his shop the next Saturday. His shop is about 1 ½ away from me but it took me a whole day but I came home with some extra parts too. I asked Roland when he wanted to come over to pick up the valance and suggested to come May 17th so we could go to the Jukebox Fair car show together the next day. He arranged to stay in a hotel nearby because we just had moved to our new house and had no guest room ready then. The weekend he came was a bit disappointing for all of us, he came Saturday morning and we talked for a while until Matthew came downstairs and asked me to call the doctor. Later that day he had to go to the hospital and Roland had to have dinner alone at the hotel Matthew was so sick that he didn’t even see Roland’s car! On Sunday we did go to the car show together and had a great time but I had to go back early to see Matthew in the hospital and Roland had to drive about three hours back home. I promised him that we would come to Luxemburg this year for a car show. So Roland if you know the date please let me know.
Ron
new rockers They made a little progress this week:
"new" metal in the right rear quarter
new rocker panels were made
primered for protection
Here are some more pics
Passenger side is almost done, only the corner of the door needs to be done.
Other side still needs to be done, I hope they did some work today!
Looking sad
but we all know it’s going to be allright
Slowly but surely they are making progress with the body work.
This is the guy resposible for the body work
The epoxy is replaced by metal now
It has been a while since there was an update but they did keep working on the car every now and then. Most of the welding is done and they started sanding. Unfortunately they found some bad repaired spots while doing that 
They are convinced their work will be done by the second week of March.
Ron
There is metal in front of the door again instead of fibre and bondo
finished work under the rear windshield and also repaired the area around the trunk opening
the sanding begins
Bad spot is gone.
It’s getting there!
Thanks for posting the progress pics.
Watching the cars come back to life is always exciting! —John