I been sick with flu like symptoms for last two weeks. Bummer being at home and too sick to work on car.
I was working on a few things although none of them are totally complete. I had installed all of the passenger side glass and checked out the power windows and power door locks. But I realized that I should have done the work of making the passenger quarter align with the door before installing the rear passenger window, so I had to remove it. Welding around glass doesn't work too well.
There was a car show in Canton GA a few weeks ago, since I work in Canton 3 days a week and the show was only 1/2 mile from where I work, I couldn't resist checking out some of the local cars after work. In addition to 60's muscle cars there were a lot of unusual cars, including a Chevette ("Why restore this?" My girl friend's words) and a 60's vintage BMW, it goes without saying there were lots of trucks and 50's vintage cars present.
A random shot of some of the cars.
A real nice GS.
And the only 60's Pontiac present.
And now back to the Lemans.
The passenger door window. It's not too bad but not good enough.
New glass and restored mounting hardware.
A shot of all passenger side glass installed. I then realized I should have not installed the rear window.
I then removed the rear window so I could install a patch on the quarter panel, the contour was really off at the top.
Result of grinding and sanding the patch.
Filler applied. And this is where I realize a 3" DA would be a really nice tool to have.
This is the staring point. The quarter is about 1/4" too low at the top.
Filler work on door to fender edge. I also filled the antenna hole. I going to install a 70 windshield with antenna in the glass. I know these type of antenna's didn't work very well. I know this first hand since my 76 Grand Prix had one, but I not planning to use the radio to listen to radio stations. The only purpose of the Radio is to play my MP3's.
I had started putting filler on the trunk lid. This is far from complete. Still working with Rage, I have not got to the point of doing the final wipe with Rage extreme.
These are parts of the driver side windows that I am working on.
This is where the car was about two weeks ago. No new work since. I was looking at the the driver vent window parts yesterday and thought the frame looked a little off. Well it was. I was shipped a vent frame for a 64-65 Malibu. So I sent it back today to be swapped.
I probably not going to do any more work on the car until the weekend.