Here is the test fit to the outer rocker, nice and tight!



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As I posted before I decided not to replace the entire inner rocker, just to section out the rot




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I used a 10ga fish plate over the joint just to renforce it


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Once I have the outer rocker ready to install I will shoot epoxy primer in side here and possibly some weather proofing under coating, this area never gets sealed off completely and looks to be sort of a drainage channel from the upper cowel

Nice job on that patch piece you made. Doubling up at the joint should work nice . Looking Good!

Well its been slow going, Not much spare time lately but i did get a few things done

Got the inner rocker buttoned up and shot with Epoxy primer

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The rear inner quarter was rotted out and I got that installed. was happy the aftermarket piece fit very well

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I still have some weld clean up to do but I epoxy primed it in the meantime, I had mixed up a cup for the inner rocker and had a bunch left over so I didnt want it to go to waste.


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Next I was time to finish removal of the quarters, I braced up the weather strip channel once I was sure the trunk lid gaps looked good and everything was sitting where it was supposed to.

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By this time it was already 95º and my garage faces the west.... And I decided to go ahead and get a new roof skin, I found more rust than i would like to see around the back window and with the quarter panels being spot welded under I figured i would just go for it, that and I will be able to clean and epoxy prime all the inner roof structure. so whats another $250 in sheet metal in the grand scheme of things!:gitrdun:

It is so cool that this is your first car !
I am doing the same thing to my 66 Nova I bought in 1983 when I was 19 and it is all Detroit Speed.
Looking forward to watching your build progress.

Had a decent weekend, was able to get a few things going. I started off with removing the rest of the quarter panels,and removed the roof


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I also had the trunk weather strip channel and hinges braced up so I went ahead and removed the package tray shelf


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I went ahead and did a bit of pre fitting with the quarter panels just to make sure I was on the the right course and there was nothing that need fixed before I sandblast the inside, and like I was afraid of I jumped the gun welding in the wheel houses..... I will have to repair them and re fit them, they were both rotated back a bit too much. I lined them up to the inner structure and the rocker but that wasn't good enough.

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Aside from that snafu the quarters went in nicely

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