Check out the bodywork done by a PO!

I'm no expert but this looks prety bad.

 

Hey is that my old car?

Lol. Ya never know what lurks under the paint of a 40 year old car

 

It could be! I'm happy with the shop, it's getting qtrs and all that metal work redone.

 

Some more pics

 

Looks like it's coming along nicely and pretty quickly too...can't wait to see the finished car!

 

Good stuff!!!

 

At least they tried and didn't bondo or fiber glass fill at least you can grind the welds and remove pretty easy

 

Wow I cannot believe you cut out all that hard work the PO put into the car
Love the wheel jig the shop has to support the car on the lift. Looks good!

 

Looks good, did you know about the crappy work when you bought it?

 

The dumb a$$ PO of my car replaced my quarters with Goodmark quarters, but what he didn't bother to replace was the outer wheelhouse that had a 3" hole in it. Whats that, another 100 bucks? At least your doing it right and replacing yours while its open. Looks nice, keep up the good work!

 

Body is coming off the frame too. Thanks fellas, it's a quality resto place that has done a few National winning.....sorry Chevelles.
Can't wait to get it back and start putting on all the trim and interior.

 

Purty.

- Eric

 

dang newman, you weren't kidding about that horrible body work. The drywall screws+ bad patchwork made me laugh its so bad. Thats as bad looking as the window screen+ 5 gallons of bondo on my 66 toro (although sort of more proper I guess)

 

I know, next project I get will be bare metal roller!

 

Looking at that this comes to mind

 

I remember those TV commercials,Old Earl if that was him would say.I'll paint any car any color 69.95 no up's and no extras.I grew up in the chi town area.

 

Although im too young to have see them I ventured off to looking into the history as my olds boss used to say " matt sheby spent an extra 25 bucks on this car give him the earl schieb special " lol. We used to do cars for wholesalers at the old shop from time to time and they didn't wanna spend any money.

 

Could have been the part wasn't available back in the day or if it was may have been to expensive to purchase..I'm surprised to see it welded. A lot of old school work was just pop riveted or screwed down. Ill bet even with that work it probably looked nice when it was done and the owner was once happy to drive it..

 

They are still around, my daughters best friends dad owns one in Chicago on Irving Park and Western.

 

I think that's one of the few left.