Ivan's coupe: bodywork is done

[Ivan141]

Work continued this saturday. Came to the shed with the intent to finish up preparations for undercoating, and as is the tradition, ended up doing lots of welding (Step 1: I admit I am powerless over a good session of welding).

Was buttoning up some of the pinholes in the welds at the back, doing lots of grinding around the inside of the trunk (where I never put much effort in earlier). Then I took the wire wheel to some of the old sealant and I got frustrated about the rusty color inside the seam where the rear panel meets the floor. This side was the only part where I still had original floor left (rest has been patched long ago).

So I did what every nutcase does and whipped out the grinder for another go-around.

In this picture you can also see the bottom corner of the right rear light hole has been replaced.. Bert sandwiched some mangy hole-riddled steel between 2 layers of patches that were just overlapped over it.


Shit shot, but you can see the rear edge of the floor also got the chop.

Some hours later did my best to make decent patch panels.


Left it after the outside was linished back since it was already 20:15 and the drive home from the shed is about an hour.

Here's a crappy pic of the metal I took out (some of it):