Update On Alexanders '67 Buick
Tom sent me three more pix and an update on the work he is doing on restoring Alexanders '67 Buick. Here is what he had to say. I see the Buick has rust problems under the battery box like our Squarebirds can.
"I’m make some progress with Alexander’s car. Here’s some photos of the passenger side front inner fender. This section is below the battery box. You can see the piece I cut out hanging on the right. The leaky battery did a job on it! To fabricate the new piece took some thought. It has a .9 inch wide by ¼ inch deep “S” indentation stamped from the factory to give it some strength. Since I don’t have a megaton stamping press, I ended up sketching the outline of into a piece of wood. I used a router to make the indentation and loosely screwed the patch panel down to it , confirming the exact location of with a paper tracing. The next step was laying the board on solid my solid concrete floor and “drawing” the sheet metal into the form with a big hammer and flat block of steel while flowing the tracing.
My welding skills are not the best but it will look perfect when complete."
Here are the three pix.
Tom sent me three more pix and an update on the work he is doing on restoring Alexanders '67 Buick. Here is what he had to say. I see the Buick has rust problems under the battery box like our Squarebirds can.
"I’m make some progress with Alexander’s car. Here’s some photos of the passenger side front inner fender. This section is below the battery box. You can see the piece I cut out hanging on the right. The leaky battery did a job on it! To fabricate the new piece took some thought. It has a .9 inch wide by ¼ inch deep “S” indentation stamped from the factory to give it some strength. Since I don’t have a megaton stamping press, I ended up sketching the outline of into a piece of wood. I used a router to make the indentation and loosely screwed the patch panel down to it , confirming the exact location of with a paper tracing. The next step was laying the board on solid my solid concrete floor and “drawing” the sheet metal into the form with a big hammer and flat block of steel while flowing the tracing.
My welding skills are not the best but it will look perfect when complete."
Here are the three pix.
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