Today's happenings.....

Blessed with amazing weather today, soooooo: Pulled the driver's fender on the Caddy and finished up the main patch panel to fix the only rust (all 69-70 caddy's are rusted here, like 60-66 GM trucks), will do the final little section on a pull max (compound curve I'm not good enough to do) with my buddy's help later. Figure if I get the fenders off now I can have it done by May. Buddy and I took the pile on a road trip for fun, much of which was on mud/gravel. Came home and mowed the lawn (a real rarity in Montana in mid November but 50+ degrees today) then took the beater to a real car wash because I didn't want to drag the hose, bucket, and soap out. Finished up with proper Mexican food and now home watching Roadkill....nice Saturday.

 

nice caddy!

 

You got a lot done Lucas! But...proper Mexican food in Montana? How did they get way up there?

 

Hey, I have the exact same lawn mower.

 

Better check yer shed......

 

That fender is bigger than some Nissans.

 

dragging the hose and bucket out after pulling that fender is NOTHING.

 

Driving across that bridge would be enough of an adventure for one day. I figure it would take a whole day just to clean the whitewalls on that Caddy.

 

.....and today, inspite of the rain, we began down the path of "since we're here"...........

 

×100 on the Mexican food hermano!

 

There's Mexicans everywhere. You know what's funny, is when you look in the back of Chinese food restaurant I can spot a couple of my wife's cousins back there too lol.

 

Hey Lucas where did you source that section of new metal and how did you make the bend?

 

will do the final little section on a pull max (compound curve I'm not good enough to do) with my buddy's help later.

Are you serious?

 

Yep, that looks good. But I've got access to a killer metal worker who'll be able to work one out with the flange in about 1/100 the time. And I help him on the side so he'll do it for free. I use his TIG to weld my sheet metal, so I'll have everything there besides.

 

We have a couple metal supply shops here. One I use is Pacific Steel. You use a metal break to do a hard bend in the sheet metal. Softer bends you can just use whatever like your knee, a pole, whatever has the right contour

 

Yeah, I did the bottom of the doors on my GS that were all rotted out worse than that. Tried fabricating some metal to fit, but it looked like complete crap when I was done. So I cheated.. I cut the bottoms off a couple Monte Carlo doors (same interior structure just a different exterior skin). I got access to some 70-72 Monte Carlos that are rust free, but nobody seems to like Monte Carlos.

 

Polishing bits and pieces.....

 

They just made stuff better then.

 

Polishing the grille. There's 210 slots (14 rows wide and 15 rows up and down). I've been doing it 3 hours a night for 2 nights. I've got 196 to go..... but I've got till May. Maybe June.

 

My wife's says... no messing with car parts in the house.