Panels ready for painting.

All the panels except for the bonnet have now been repaired. A lot of work has been put into repairing the rust in the doors and minor damage to the guards as well. The marks you see in the third photo are from the equipment used to heat and shrink the metal back into or as close to the original. The name of the tool escapes me at the moment however it is an electric tool which replaces the old oxy torch and wet rag. As you can see the rear of the panel was painted with POR15 and there is no damage to the paint except for the swirl marks. All the eight panels should all be painted by mid to late January, then starts the long job of putting the doors back together. Somewhere during this time I will take the shell in to to the trimmer and have the hood lining and all the other trimming completed. Sorry about the quality of the photos as they were taken on my phone.

 Right rear guard.

 Front left guard.

 These marks are from heating and cooling the metal 

to bring it back into shape.

 I had repaired and painted this guard however I was unhappy 

with the finished job so I had it re done.

The rear panel was one of the worst panels to repair.

There were lots of holes to weld up and general damage.

This is not the original panel as the original was badly 

rusted on the bottom.