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Thats another job ticked off the list. Is the small hole the last of the welding or is there more to do?

If you take any more parts off make sure to take pictures and label EVERYTHING you take off with a note attached giving instruction of where it came from.

Good to hear you are positive about progress. As long as you can picture the car finished you will always makes steps forward. Some will be giant steps and some will be small

::thumb::  Fabrice Your ingenuity never ceases to amaze and inspire. Anyone doing a restoration only need follow your build thread to get the answers they are looking for. :goodpost:

Always good to put a face to a name

Thanks David

Its been a productive day today. I got some of roof trim de-glued. What a PITA that job was. It had been baked in Arizona for 45 years. The wire brush needed plenty of elbow grease. Used a stainless steel scourer and then triple zero wire wool. Where the glue came away the zinc plating came...

I would wire brush thick rust off. Second pass would be stainless steel scrubbers. Third pass wire wool. Then i would use electrolysis to remove the rest of the rust. Then polishing wheel to remove pitting. Then i would either get them chrome plated by professionals or zinc plate at home and use...

Yep Yep your addicted to the smell of white vinegar bubbling away. :D  Great work as always Fabrice. You may want to consider some aluminium under the top middle section too. The stretch where the latch is. I am constantly leaning on that very fragile piece of plastic

Very nice. Is it as good close up as the pictures promote

Vinnie Vinnie Vinnie wheres your imagination   :D

I meant to go yesterday but it totally slipped my mind. Its only 5 or 6 miles away from my home

Great job. Those parts are looking crisp

For sure. Long term fix for a 69 fastback. That would be perfect

lollerz   ::thumb::   :D   ::thumb::   lollerz     :goodpost:

Good to hear you have it running and ready to enjoy the experience

Surely if you put your mind to it you could make at least 5 good cars from that lot

Great progress Fabrice. Plenty of success. Next stage in any resto is always a satisfying feeling. Well done

Sounds like you got your work cut out there and a sensible plan to make it right

Great progress. Cant wait to see it buttoned up