My first car (a long overdue project)

[JDODDS187]

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

[JDODDS187]

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















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

[JDODDS187]

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

[waynieZ]

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

[JDODDS187]

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

[JDODDS187]

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






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.

[JDODDS187]

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.





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!

[Timberline]

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.

[JDODDS187]

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










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

[JDODDS187]

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.



Aside from that snafu the quarters went in nicely