When it comes to the Body work aspect you need alot of specialty tools
from hammers and dollies all the way through english wheels and metal shrinkers
heres what I use
, pictured here is my hammers, each has a flat face for general smoothing and a specialty face, which includes a pick, a cross peen and another one I cant remeber what its called. also here is a slide hammer(the blue thing on the back of the table) several different pulling rods, and on the bakc right a couple of bondo knives. None of these tools are top of the line and the average price is 30 bucks a set of tools (slide hammer,and hammers+dollies were 30 each the rest was between 10-15) and you can near fix any dent with fairly little effort. my advice to anyone who want to get into this as a hobby is to buy a car for maybe 400 bucks and just do by trial and error. would i recomend you go out and get a 69 cuda in mint condition and rip into it, NO, start with something like an 83ish truck that has been kicking around a farm for a few years collecting dents. In addition to doing, you gotta know the theory behind what your trying to do, so mehaps hit up the public library or perhaps head over to the parts store (haynes has a few body-working books) or the paint shop(my guy is a helluva good guy), perhaps even goto a local body shop and ask a few questions, maybe see if one of the guys would like to teach you a thing or three for a case of beer. You dont have to goto a professional college in order to get into this as a hobby.
, pictured here is my hammers, each has a flat face for general smoothing and a specialty face, which includes a pick, a cross peen and another one I cant remeber what its called. also here is a slide hammer(the blue thing on the back of the table) several different pulling rods, and on the bakc right a couple of bondo knives. None of these tools are top of the line and the average price is 30 bucks a set of tools (slide hammer,and hammers+dollies were 30 each the rest was between 10-15) and you can near fix any dent with fairly little effort. my advice to anyone who want to get into this as a hobby is to buy a car for maybe 400 bucks and just do by trial and error. would i recomend you go out and get a 69 cuda in mint condition and rip into it, NO, start with something like an 83ish truck that has been kicking around a farm for a few years collecting dents. In addition to doing, you gotta know the theory behind what your trying to do, so mehaps hit up the public library or perhaps head over to the parts store (haynes has a few body-working books) or the paint shop(my guy is a helluva good guy), perhaps even goto a local body shop and ask a few questions, maybe see if one of the guys would like to teach you a thing or three for a case of beer. You dont have to goto a professional college in order to get into this as a hobby.
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