Rainy and nasty until late afternoon. Spent the day with wife and family, so no car work. Tomorrow I gotta get back on paying jobs. Friend dropped off some initiative in the form of cash to get me moving on his welding, so I've got no excuses now!

 

Haha,i know the feeling.After doing the cap,rotor,plugs,and wires my parts fund was pretty low,so i went through the extra parts i have left from the car i parted out and started selling a few so i can fund some more upgrades haha.

 

I spent the day in a funk. Fighting with the wife, not feeling Mothers Day I guess. She told me I love the Camaro more than her. IDK she might be on to something. No but really, all is good. I just was tired from lack of sleep and Sat. working on the Camaro.

 

they dont understand it!

 

No,you are absolutely right they dont haha.I hear it every time i go to the garage to do anything.Also my wife doesn't drive so i have to take her anywhere she needs to go and she just absolutely hates the fact that now that it's getting warm,we take the camaro every chance i can,she hates my car haha.

 

Now I feel even luckier! My wife likes the hotrods, and likes that I work on them a lot. She says it keeps me out of trouble, although I'm not sure what trouble that would be???
Just picked up some more sheetmetal to fab patch panels on the paying car, but got enough extra to make some patches I need for my gasser too. Got one panel on it that will be easier to fab new than try to straighten and bondo.

 

Put the paying work off for one more day today! The weather was so nice I wanted to just go for a cruise in either tha Camaro or the gasser, but instead I stayed home and got an early start.
I pulled the rear bumper, brackets, and trunk lid off the Austin, and stripped all the paint off the lower valance area. Then I marked out the edges of the badly bent metal and used the air saw to cut it all out.
After cutting out the bent metal I hammered the rest smooth, then set my metal behind the holes and marked it with a felt pen. I cut out the pieces of donor metal and fitted them to the holes with butt clamps. Tacked in the metal, removed the clamps and then finished the welds.
After the welding I ground it all smooth and applied bondo. Then it was just sand, prime, and paint. Got my bumper brackets ground down and cleaned up, plus new paint too. Rebuilt my tailight wiring and added plug in connectors to allow the bumper to be easily removed in the future if needed.
With new paint on the rear and the bumper brackets, I reassembled it all, and it's done. No more bodywork left now, so I'll just enjoy it for the summer and think about paint colors for this fall.
Still considering what other changes I may make over the summer to improve whatever.

 

Anyone ever remove undercoating from the inside of a car? The PO of my car told me he sprayed undercoating inside so it wouldn't rust. OH, he was right but what a pain to get off.

 

i had to get some off the bottom of the control arms when i did the shocks since the PO of my car did the entire underside of my car with that stuff.

 

Not inside, but underneath. I used my heat shrink gun to soften it up and it came off pretty easy.