Thread: think this roof can be saved?

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I really cant tell from the pics either, but it really does not look bad to me, nothing a hammer cant fix.

thanks for the vote of confidence guys, I won't be able to strip it down to metal till it gets a little warmer outside I live in Maryland and it has been very cold . But I will for sure post pics as soon as I can get out side and strip it... I had one suggestion to cut relief cuts in the wood sturts in the worst areas and jack them up then sandwich them between some 3/4 plywood to get them to hold in that position... that seems like a good way of doing it all I have to do is make a pattern out of paper cardboard once I get it into position then cut it out of plywood... does that seem like a good fix?

thanks,
simon

Well I finally got a little warm weather where I could stand to have the garage door open and I started sanding the roof down I have it about 3/4 of the way done. I took a few more pics of it .I know it is still very hard to see how bad but atleast you can see how it is welded and that some of the welds are very solid and some places there doesn't seem to be any welds at all... I was going to replace the roof wood but I would have to remove the roof to do so ... so I am tring to avoid that... there was a ton of body filler on there as you can probably see there is still alot to come off.. there was some yellow colored and some grey which seemed a lot tuffer than the yellow. anyway What would be recommended for the next step after I finish getting all the apoxy primer and body filler off??? Try to jack up the sagging wood strut and brace it some how? then hammer up on the low spots to stretch the metal and try get it in shape then skim with body filler then ppg D90? here are some more pics..

thanks,
simon
http://s170.photobucket.com/albums/u...9%20Model%20A/