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 must have been some sort of side impact(s) or maybe even a rear-end collision, although the tail section looks original.

I’ll have more detailed pictures of the driver side patch, but here are the few shots of the work I’ve done thus far on the passenger side.

I cut a donor patch from a less rusty quarter panel. A little clever cutting and measuring and I think I’ve got it lined up with the knee-level crease. I lap welded with a series of small tack welds and < 1" beads. I then ground the welds flat and beveled the rest of the patch edges with the grinder in hopes that the Bond-O skimming will be less painful as well as less obvious.

I’m working on the driver side now. I’ll post some pictures of the Bond-O depth as well as the cutting and suturing process as I go.