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 damaged/body-filled section and weld in a patch just as I did for the passenger side.
You can see the extent of the filler in the images below. The bond-o had cracked and I was hoping that all it would take was a bit of grinding and some refilling/sanding to do it up. But it turns out that this side was just as bad, if not worse, than the passenger side. So I’ll just weld in the whole rear quarter skin. I would have done the same thing for the other side, but my donor patch wasn’t as nice for the passenger side as the driver.
An hour worth of cutting and sawing and I ended up with one big, gaping hole. I’ve left enough metal to lap weld the fresh patch to. Now would be a good time to fab up some CSL Batmobile style brake duct intakes…or a 007 hidden missile launching panel.
