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'72 tii rebuild - update - 3/22/08


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Sadly I was working on her today and found something very, very bad :( I will post pics tomorrow...

I will also be sending an email yor way Blunt ;)

i hope its fixable. it has to be if you just discovered it

its not a body in the trunk is it?

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A body in the trunk would be an easy, I'd call the police and they wold take care of it for free... :P

I found one of the rear shock towers is rusted all the way through! I will take a pic later and post since I will need some advice on what I should do. The P/O is a very good friend of mine and knew nothing about it. And I'm finding the owner (or shop) before him did the worst job on body work... Hiding things with bondo w/o taking care of the rust first. Who bodo's rust??? It didn't surprise me when I realized that the strange textured paint in the trunk was there for a reason... to hide rust! It's a thick tar like covering that was then painted over, when I inspected it yesterday I noticed a crack and started chipping away at it only to uncover a huge gapping rust hole...

It will make more sense when I post a picture.

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Not the greatest looking job-maybe they could have turned the welding machine up little bit to get more penetration on the welded part. Also rust can go through front portion of part reapired to front car part behind seat, hope you had that worked on too or the seat could catch fire if they did not take it out prior to welding with the old horse hair seat pad!

Hope shop will at least grind the patched part down a bit to make it less proud from teh factory type of metal.

Thats an ugly patch job, I think, not to offend. But very obvious.

Much like a patch I used to see on freight ships while working the docks in my home country when I was young. it may hold water, but maybe from wrong side.

Nice car though. Keep the work up. It looks nice and I like the engine!

George P

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Thanks guys -

These are RM's. The best part about them is that I can add wider lips to them when I get flares ;)

I'm hoping to get them all done by next week.. So I will post pics and update my blog for sure.

FYI - Here's a set of RS wheels for sale with tires - I think they are offering free shipping ;)

http://www.memoryfab.com/wheels/used/detail/20060306034255/

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