❤ Sir I must tell you are a inspiration to us to do it yourself folks your information was more than informative I don’t know if you to page you or not but if so they’re not paying you enough. I have built many cars over the years without any of these type videos and God knows I would’ve loved to of had someone show me like you were doing God bless keep on making videos I’ll keep watching.
Thanks for the confidence! I have said this a million times, if we had all of the internet resources that we have today when we were doing this 30 years ago, I can only imagine how much easier everything would have been! Keep watching and keep commenting!
Another helpful video on metal repair. I have really enjoyed the project so far and can’t wait to see what you have in the future. I pretty much have most of the same repairs to do with my 56 restoration. Thanks Bill!
@christophe clement: Je viens de terminer les sous-titres et il devrait maintenant y avoir une version française que vous pouvez utiliser. S'il vous plaît laissez-moi savoir si vous pouvez lire le long!
Nice Job, you Got it looking Great!! My Dad ( Pops) had a 56 Post from Texas when we moved from Flint out to Linden. Michigan, the Car was Rock Solid, this was 1972 and he Bought a 3 bedroom ranch here, Didn't have a Garage he Sold it for $500.00 I was bummed!!!! He took the body of the frame and painted the Frame and the underneath of the floor pans it had slicks and steel rims. My Pop and uncle built a nice 26×28 foot Garage after. I've always loved 55 and 56 post cars. He used to Drag Race super Stock in the hay Day. I love watching your Videos.
@@RestoringChristine1956 LOL... I imagine the dread. have a project out in my garage I have been putting off for the same reason. Glad this one gave you a break. You practically have a whole body again.
I'm in the process of doing my rocker panels but the Rockers that were put on whenever were just like caps. I will have a video of by the end of the weekend I will be expressing my concern so maybe you could watch the video and let me know what I'm doing wrong LOL. I've never done metal work so this is all new to me. I'm glad I stumbled across your Channel I'm subscribed
Looks like it came together like a glove. I believe it may help you in the future too utilize those harbor freight sheet metal tongs to sharpen the 90 degree bends on the bottom, followed by a piece of angle iron stuffed on top of your bottle jack too spread the load so you don’t end up with the kinks I saw as you raised it and jumped inside. Just a suggestion. Keep bringing her back to life bud!
It's amazing how that went. When I was using the jack, I couldn't see and deformations. But in the time lapse, you can see one form at the corner just in front of the jack, somewhere in the middle. But putting your hands on it, it's pretty straight. Nothing that can't be quicklyvtapped out with a body hammer. I'm glad you're following along!
Back and sliver man that would look KILLER............. I just started checking out your videos a few days ago. I am restoring a 1940 Buick sport coupe. body work is were I am but have not started yet. I to am a do it yourself. see you later.
The process is pretty much the same for these full-frame cars. It's just a matter of whether or not reproduction sheet metal is available or if you have to make it yourself. Thanks for watching!
Gotta love those aftermarket panels...always just kinda close... I think I would of sharpened the bends on the bottom ...hopefully the bottom is strait from opening to opening..also I think what you might be runnin into is that your braces were so bad for so long that the body probibly twisted and sagged over time to preset stress on the panels and cutting them apart who knows where the right place is anymore..like I said before the doors will answer all your questions...remember you can move a lot of door gap by shimming the body mounts too... interesting to see how it comes out....good luck..I'll be watchin...
So far it seems like it's not racked, but we'll see. When I did the Cutlass convertible, I locked the entire thing together with bracing and, just like you said, ended up building into it a pinch where the top of the door jambs at the back were tilted relative to the jambs at the hinges. On the convertible, there is a big knee brace that locks that side panel to the floor. I had to grind out all the welds and then use a hydraulic jack to pry the two side walls apart! I'm pretty sure that I don't have that problem here, but we'll see! Thanks for keeping up with me!
For years, I dreamed of painting her tuxedo black and silver. But the family won't let me do anything other than red and ivory! It wouldn't be "Christine" they say!
