60 Biscayne

[UGLY OLDS]

Man ...You be smokin'    :!:  :!: Simple ..No "Itty-Bitty" pieces ...Rust proofed the channels....You done guud today  

 OK .. I'm reading this & lookin' at the pictures after meds & the funny light just blinked ......     Don't shoot ..Don't throw nuttun....  

Wadda you think of this .....  No lower trunk floor available .. :?  Seein' that floorpan sitting the front seat area, wadda you think about puttin two of those side by side, cuttin' the rounded parts outa the right side of one, the left side of the other, movin' them close together ,doing some "dot-dot-dot-dot"  :?:   Instant trunk floor with round swoopie corners  :!:    
Kinda like makin' a 4' wide "tub" that resembles a trunk floor with enough sides to weld to what's left of the trunk floor sides that you have  :?:  

Ok ..My head hurts now & I gotta go...... :oops:

Bob..

[idrivejunk]

But looky Bob, I have all this. I am only going to use the center section of the tail extension-



The only catch is I gotta create ends for all those ribs in the new pans where they meet the new front extension. The square hole in my anvil and two hammers is how I made the indents on the new piece.

[UGLY OLDS]

Another drug induced idea ... :?        Like the wind... .....POOF  :!:  :oops:  

Bob...

[idrivejunk]

Always honor your imagination, medicine man. A certain amount of mind slur is required to follow my threads.

[idrivejunk]

Today I did the cleanup /weldup thing to the left gas tank brace, then went to work on the tire brace and other flanges where the new floor sits. You can kinda see theres a line of perforations about an inch up the right drop-off panel. Fortunately I am finding clean metal in some of these seams, and the original red oxide primer worked in some places.

[idrivejunk]

[UGLY OLDS]

I was going to ask if that car came from Illinois .:?   Then I noticed it couldn't be.There's salvageable metal below the door handles ...    

Bob...

[idrivejunk]

The owner must be from there then. Met him today and he was all smiles.    He wants to bring in a 51 Ford pickup after this. Biscayne is the wife's car. Engine is a crate 350.

[idrivejunk]

Order begins to emerge from chaos...

Just a mock up, but the floor pans seem to be decent pieces... fit-wise, so far.  Pretty much butts up to the new front extension.

[idrivejunk]

I just cut the quarter where it had previously been cut before the scrap metal was thrown in. The drop off panel wasn't solid enough to even hold still so I had to chop-



There was a steady stream of distractions today, see the feet?

I'll have to patch this spot too, further forward-



One mud man had worked the right fender and primed it, then another came along and just literally butchered my patch work without saying a word. I put a stop to it here-



Broke leg man made his return today, still with boot type brace on and crutches but he did fine  

[idrivejunk]

I love to chop. Could not help myself, I hacked away the scrap metal patch on the left quarter to have a look at the front part of the drop-off panel-












My left hemisphere spent a few minutes trying to justify not chopping that off... but maaan   out came the Sharpie and the other side of my brain took over and then there was this. It was fun to make  





















Its enough to weld a pan to now. Outer wheelhouse repair will commence when the quarter is wide open, later. Inner wheelhouse appears usable to me.

[kb426]

Isn't removing cancer the proper thing to do?

[idrivejunk]

Every time.     Since its a jobby not a hobby I have to run everything through the save-or-chop value filter. There was just no way the time saved would be worth leaving such a malignant growth in that spot.   I was very tempted to make the whole panel new but my default preference is to disturb as few factory contours / seams as possible at one time, so I have less chance of venturing off course.

[idrivejunk]

Today I screwed the left section of the trunk floor in place. Stood on it, then took it out for the mud men to clean up and apply epoxy. Made matching indents in the edge of the new front extension where it will overlap the floor pieces and laid it on the epoxy pile along with the front and left rear floors. Then I moved to a new spot-















A chop-chop here and a chop chop there, here a chop there a chop.... old idrivejunk cut a car. eieio!

This is roughly the theory-











The rear extension and the floor center section have redundant coverage for lack of a better term. The flange on the floor will go away and a row of plug welds will do.






What you can't see is the getting started on rust treatment inside the brace underneath that mess

[kb426]

"A chop-chop here and a chop chop there, here a chop there a chop.... old idrivejunk cut a car. eieio!"
Good humor.