So it's been a while.

Class is back in session, so before I had to drag the tina down to school, I pulled all the windows. Most of it came out without too much trouble as the rubber was just trash.

I had some time on my hands while there was some sunshine so I made the cut in the dash for the GT Pod set up. The cuts didn't come out too bad, and the pod sits nice and flush with the dash.

Another shot of no windows.

I had to do a little more filler work over the areas that were patched. Looks like the previous owner welded up an antenna hold on the fender, the weld wasn't too bad, I just had to re-do a couple of spots and a light coat of filler.

Oh, I guess this picture should have been before the last one. I just finished stripping the fender of all the old painter/bondo/primer.

Overall the fender was really clean, here's to hoping the rest of the car is like this fender...
Few more coats of filler...I gotta admit, I don't mind doing filler work, I'm actually getting better at spreading the stuff. Comes out a lot smoother than it used to! More piccy's to come as soon as class is back on Saturday.

Updates..

So had a little bit of time to get working on the cortina in the past couple weeks. Here's the 1st pic of the new front panel made. It almost looks factory...almost....


Next on the lsit was trying to fix the crack in the fender. Thought I could get away with just welding it back...but I was wrong as usual...

So, out came the dykam and the scribe to make a new panel..

Then Andy and his trusty angle grinder that i'm still afraid of haha it's got no control for me..so I ended up buying a cut off tool...that should give me more control for the next patch panel...and yes...there are more!

Panel cut out, getting prepped for the new metal to go in..

New metal being tacked into the fender:

From the front, the old panel that we cut out didn't look too bad...

The back side is a whole nother thing...this piece will go in my box of F'ed up metal..

The panel all welded up, ground flush and ready for some filler.

and so I used some body filler for the front end. most of it will be ground off, I guess it just has to be done. So this is where I'm at right now. I still have to weld in a patch on the lower back corner of the left fender, that should happen tonight, and make another patch for the sill, maybe this weekend on that.

On to other things, Sacchin was very kind in getting me passes for the Petersen Automotive Museum, so we went over the weekend. 1st thing I was walking in through the doors was a Impala, and that green caught my eye. Maybe something similar to this green for my flash..

They had some really cool exhibits, all the things that I like...Lowriders and Microcars.

That was very very cool of Sacchin to get me those passes. All this time living in LA and I've never been to that place. It's smaller than I imagined, but still a whole lotta fun to check out.


And last but not least, some updates of Andy's project. The rear is almost done...

And he's been working on the front corners along with the window channel. I gotta admit, it's coming out really nice.