Thread: '37 Oze build

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Here are a few photos to explain why I've spent the last several months, mainly doing body work. In addition to the ridiculously poor construction, I'm doing a lot of reshaping that's mostly likely caused by worn-out molds.

I've shown before, some of the outside corners, that were inside corners of the mold, with super-thick gel coat. This gel coat was removed not by sanding, but merely applying pressure with a utility knife. When it's that thick, gel coat is extremely brittle. Both of the door edges on this side were ground down to about a 1/2" wide chamfer and totally rebuilt.



I've dubbed the trunk lid the "twisted sister". In the picture, you can see one spot in the upper right, that is bare fiberglass. The spot had to be ground down with a belt sander. The lower right corner needed about 1/4" of filler to bring it up to the proper level. There's bondo all around the outer 6-8" of the entire trunk lid.



On the inside of the trunk lid, I decided to make it a smoothy, so it would not need any upholstery. I filled in several long ribs and three recesses that were 3" x 12" and 3/4" deep. The deep recesses took 4 pounds of bondo hair to fill them.



The trunk lid looks much better after several coats of Evercoat Superbuild polyester primer.



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Here's the start of the trunk lid body work, a full year ago. That's a big batch of bondo hair.



The running boards were both cupped - one about 1/16" and the other closer to 1/8". Filling an area that large with bondo was fun, but both running boards are now much flatter. Several coats of Evercoat Superbuild polyester primer (sprayable body filler) were also applied and block sanded.



Here's a typically flawed window frame area, ready for some Superbuild and more sanding.





Here's the last of many hours of work on the rear fenders. I thought I was done, but found that the entire lower edge of this fender did not have a uniform rolled edge, so it was reshaped. The fender peak was also a little off, so it got some U-pol liquid glaze to fix it up. After that, I spot primed the areas with Evercoat featherfill G2 polyester primer. Tomorrow I really expect to finish the sanding required to get the rear fenders ready for the FINAL coats of primer, prior to paint. Of course, that final coats of primer will get blocked with 400 grit.