Had my Torana towed into work yesterday afternoon to begin the rust repairs. My boss has been good enough to allow me the use of the workshop after hours as this car needs a fair bit of work that would be difficult to do at home with noise etc. Don't want to upset the neighbours.
Started off today with the lower rear screen aperture. Previous owner had cut most of the rusty part away & started to trial fit the new section, although Rares do an OK job making the repair sections, they still need a fair bit of mucking around to make them fit properly.
Got as far as removing the rest of the rusty parts & tacked the new panel in. Took ages as I wanted to make sure it was flush with the bootlid & gaped up OK. Will lightly sand the tacks & trial fit the rear screen & rubber & if all is OK, finish welding.
As with the screen aperture, the previous owner had cut most of the rusted left rear quarter out & self tapered a new section in place. It was a little mangled, so I bought another one to use. He'd overlapped the panel over the original wheel arch part, which was rusted, not the way I wanted to do the repair, so I started by removing this part along with some other bits he'd left.
Again, Rares do a pretty good job with these repair panels, but they still need work to make them fit properly.
After a few hours of trial fitting, hammer & dolly work & trimming, managed to tack the new panel in place. doesn't look like much work in the pics, but I don't want to shape the lower quarter with bog, after I finish welding & dress up the panel in a few spots, it should hopefully only need a light skim of bog to finish off.
