Started working on the passenger side of the trunk. Fun scraping of the tar which was put on nice and thick.
Thank you. First I thought it would be to boring to send the pictures of the progress but on the other hand there are a few people here wich could get an idea of how I did it for theire project. I learn from other people which posted theire project build and gave theire knowledge further.
New progress. The trunk was cut out and I started building the new right and left filler pieces. In the meantime I build a new mounting bar for the trunk to mount to the frame.
Man oh man that's really good work! Since I'll be doing basically the same repairs on my convertible and Sedanette eventually this thread is REALY appreciated! Keep posting please. If you ever want a vacation in British Columbia let me know. You could stay at my place and do my Buick repairs! LOL
Here is some progress I have been doing the last few weeks after a long break. I had in mind since I bought the car to chop it. It's my first chop I am doing. I didn't wanted to have the roof down too radical so my plan was lowering it and giving the rear a bit more fall in the C pillar. At the moment the A pillar is cut 1 1"/2" (1" in the horiz.) and the C pillar is 2 1/2" the B pillar will stay straight up.
Hey Lines, you floor work looks fantastic. I wanted to ask you a couple quick questions on your mig setup. I'm in the USA so I use the .023 mig wire we have available here for sheet metal work. I was trying to compare the 0.8mm that you use to something available here and came up with 0.030 wire. Do you find you get better results on sheet metal with the 0.08mm you are using rather than something thinner like 0.6mm (roughly .025) wire?
Thanks for the update. I have a '47 Buick Sedanette but I'm not brave enough to chop it. Perhaps with more of your postings I may develop my bravery!
Thank to al of you. @Gasser 57- I use the common 0,8 wire and 1mm sheet metal and for stiffing parts 1,2mm sheet metal The metal is not the standard , I use the sheet metal for car bodys its called BLKF ( Special deep-drawing quality). @Forunateson I will post the steps I made during the chop in commin post. I spent the most time moving the roof around and checking the flow. Since this is my first chop I don't have the eye in seeing mistakes. The first time I lowered the roof I was so exited and euforic and thought it looked right. I have a lot of Mail Contact with Wolf who is chopping a 47 Buick Sedanette two. When you stand 3m away from the car it looks good but to see the flow you will have to stand back about 8-10m and eye ball the contours. I layed a flat iron over the top to check the bow easier. At the moment its back in the garage and I moved the rear part of the roof forward a bit and chnged the angle. Tommorow it will be rolled out and checked again. Ill send the new pictures and will be curios from youre opinions comparing both pictures. I am open for all opinions only this brings me further. Here is a picture taken from the garage.
Your Buick looks fantastic in the pictures right now. But it might help you to temporarily put the front fenders and hood in place before making permanent decisions because, in the end , it has to look right with these parts too.
Yes yo are right. Wolf made me a photchop to see the complete car in a picture. I have a complete front end from a 47 Cadillac wich I want to instal with a mix from the front end of the Buick. The rear fender on the pasenger side I streched about 5". so the complete car will look diferent in the end. My major part is getting the flow right first. Here is my home made photochop before I began with the chopping
So are the new pictures from the weekend as we rolled out the Buick again after changing the rear window again. The rear window is moved forward slightly to line up the trunk lid and to make it a bit longer. In the first picture the rear of the trunk lid is a bit higher in compare to the second.