As the body panels came off

I began to see what needed attention and how much. 90% of the dents and dings were about the size of a quarter. the only severe one was on the drivers side quarter panel(no pre repair picture is availiable sorry). in addition to the major dent there was a fair sized rott hole near the wheel well. When the cash is available Ill replace at least part of the quarter panel . The fenders on the other hand were just mildly dinged and required a few taps with a hammer and a skim of body filler. In the included photo above you can see the small dents as white areas and the high spots as bare metal. the gray colored area in between is realativly even. the way you would go about hammering a dent such as those is by placing the dolley(a concaved or convexed peice of steel made to the shape of the body curve) on a low spot and hammering on a high spot. the dolley recoils and beats the low spot upward(from the back) and the hammer moves the high spot inward. rinse and repeat until they are as close as possiable, idealy 1/16th is the magic number when it comes to body filler, 1/8th will work but any thicker then that and you run into problems later on after you have painted. the ideal is to over fill the dent 1 inch past in ethier direction and cut the excess filler off with a body file or sanding block. usually you would cut in flat with 80 or 120 grit sand paper and apply a high build primer then re-sand with 320 grit paper.

There was a mustang II cobra, destined for the circle track but saved from it fate

In a previous post I said I would start posting more pictures, well 56k internet speed beware.

My usual customer, when It came to stock car work, was a co-worker of my fathers. one day I had dragged a 780 Cubic foot a minute carberator home from college, we were cleaning out the junk shed out back of the college. That same day my father and his co-worker (as previously mentioned) needed to pick something up from my garage. I had that enormous holley perched atop my smaller too box, and when they walked in the salivation commenced. As it were he had a 454 big block chevy that he felt was under-fueled for his race car and that 780 would feed it all day long with no problems. but it would have completely flooded my small block ford 302. I was to prepare a car for him but I hadnt enough room at that moment, as the cobra was where my fathers POS truck was and his truck was in one of the garage bays. about that time I had found a smaller 600 Cfm carberator buried under serveral quadra-junks. now I had a bargaining chip, the 780 holley would be just the ticket to pay for my mustang. after I made my proposal I nearly had t o get a mop and bucket to clean up the drool. Not only was he rid of POS car,but he gained a carberator to fuel his engine.