bodywork

Does anyone on here do any body work?My 79 Bu needs all the body panels aligned.I am also looking for someone to do some work on my Nova.

I thinking just about all of us do bodywork just look around that's the whole fun of it to me to see how something comes apart.. don't be scared start wrenching

Wrenching? A lot of these guys START with a sawsall!

not this poor 46 it ended with a sawzall

Those images are painful to view.

Roller Coaster wrote:Those images are painful to view.

Some should not own a sawzaw!

I am not going to comment on those pics.

if ya got something to say... say it...


its not like you havent said it before....

we dont cut up just chevy's we cut up fords 2

yea, and saw the chev today....tried to race a Ford, the Ford went by so fast, the Chev caught fire!!!....lol....

Did Bill buy another burnt up old car? I think he's only interested in real HOT Rods!

All I am going to say is I hope the 46 did not die in vain and its parts went to keep others on the road,if it all went to the scrap yard then I am speechless.

JRiggs wrote:if ya got something to say... say it...


its not like you havent said it before....

the 46 hood, front fenders, title and vin tag. went with the 47 when i traded it off.

the rear end out of the galaxy i sold for 75 bucks, the motor and tranny went to junkyard junky......

It is just hard to see one cut up like that. But at least there was some good and pieces lived on!

I've got the 46 Hood and Fenders and other assorted parts

I notice no one care about the Ford being cut up.

I was shocked beyond speach!!

Sad part is we went to get that Ford and the body was super nice. All the trim was on it and it looked like it would be a nice family cruiser. It was sitting in a yard that was low laying and when it rained the yard held water. We left two big ruts from the back wheels trying to get this car out of this lady's yard. The tire on the Ford where sunk into the ground and it had been there a while. You guessed it the bottom of the car was GONE! It was a more door and not worth the hassle it would take to fix it.
I wish we had pics of this thing going to the scrapper. This is no joke. A junker came by and wanted it. Riggs and myself watched this guy and his girlfriend put this body from the cowl back in a fleetside 8' pickup truck. It was hanging out the back and had the 84?ish Ford truck bottoming out on it's rear axle. He did this by hand too. No jacks or wenches, other than his crackhead girlfriend.

Ya notice the Chevy is running backwards, because that's the only way the Ford could win.

Boy this thread wandered a long way OT.
Seriously, I'm betting all your Bu needs is a little TLC and a hand full of shims. And you can't be too squemish.
I'll never forget working at the Nissan plant. If the window frame didn't line up tight the final trim guys would put their knee against the inside door panel, grab the top of the frame and pull till it was bent into place. First time I saw that I thought WTF. But it was an everyday thing. My buds at Saturn said you should see how they beat those things together.

stewart you forgot one thing he did have was a small microwave....

HAhahh Yeah they did use a junk microwave to get it up in the are about 14 inches closer to the tailgate before the guy picked it up.

I seen how bad it was so it was no big deal to me and I got a couple parts off of it for my 65s,I wish I would have looked at the 46 before the sawzall came out.

RebStew wrote:I notice no one care about the Ford being cut up.

junkyardjeff wrote:I seen how bad it was so it was no big deal to me and I got a couple parts off of it for my 65s,I wish I would have looked at the 46 before the sawzall came out.

RebStew wrote:I notice no one care about the Ford being cut up. :D

i tried for months and months to give that thing away... no one spoke up

Kinda like when you finally buy that THING you want and you get a good deal. Then people start telling you they could got you a lot better deal?