Bit of an update on the cortina...

Pix seems some what out of order, so from the bottom up... looks like someone welded the front fender down then middle before...so when we pulled the corner...it tore the weld...
Had to weld in a little tab, where we could put a clamp on and pull the corner with a morgan knocker.

While I was waiting for the instructor, I poked around at some bubbles that were forming on the surface...only to find more rust spots...oh joy, looks like I'm gonna do more patching..

The clamp on the welded tab. This corner was pushed in about an inch, it didn't take a whole lot of effort to pull it right back out.

Kind of hard to see, but this corner is where the metal was buckled.All in all it wasn't a very productive day, got the corner pulled out, the top lip of the valance straightened out, made the patch for the valance. and ready to start welding once we get back to class.

This week is Thanksgiving break...so...Happy Thanksgiving.

Another pinstripe class

Another one I was somewhat happy with

Stripe

Being out of town last weekend, and this coming weekend, the body work on the Cortina is put on hold, probably a good thing as that front valance bummed me out. So during the week, I've had my pinstripe class start, and I'm starting to sorta get the hang of it. Here's one of the designs I was able to do today: