Finally made a little bit of progress on the project car. After a few minor projects on the red car, our MINI and the Ford Ranger, the little turkis car is back in the spot light. The dust flew, a pile of blue tinted carnage remained while a shiny trunk lid emerged.

After a month of inactivity in the garage due to traveling and hosting friends, I finally got back to work on the car. The driver side rear quarter panel had initially looked as though it could get by with just a bit of bond-o work. But upon further inspection I decided to just chop out [...]

The poor Turkis car must have been mistreated in a previous life. What I thought were rusty rear wheel arches turned out to be dented and wrinkled quarter panels loaded with…yes, Bond-O, as you may have guessed. Both the passenger and driver sides are affected but luckily very little rust is in the area. There [...]

This was my first attempt at patching up some floorboards. Pre-fab OEM style patches are still available from a couple vendors but at a premium. So it was off to the TSC to buy up a few pieces of 16ga sheet metal. When owning an old car you are never at a loss for time [...]