My thoughts...
If you are wanting a nice driver to keep and enjoy (like me), I would
just get the one fender fixed. Without
the gas tank they can get to most of it to pound it straight again. Back
in the day, all the best cars by the
club founder guys had BIG flares, your smallish ones aren't nearly as
rad. If you go ahead and leave them
but finish the car, later you COULD remove/restore them to stock while
the car is still a driver... of course
don't do any super trick paint and save some of the exact color and paint.
If you want a high buck collector car with perfect stock fenders sell
this one and buy one of those already
finished, you'll always be under water if you try to do it to yours.
You and a few others have motivated me finally to start pounding off the
paint and bondo on my rat rod
Tiger.. finding BAD stuff from years past... you are not alone!
Gary
On 9/26/2016 10:19 AM, daniel doornbos via Tigers wrote:
>
> The tiger has been sandblasted. The undercoating on my car was going
> to be impossible to remove without a ton of time and making a horrible
> mess of the garage, driveway and myself. So I had it sandblasted
> inside and out, 100%. In hindsight the sand removal and clean up was
> significant and I should have skipped the interior sand blast and
> masked off all the interior holes as I spent a good bit of time
> getting sand out. The blaster uses gorilla tape to protect the vin
> tags. I am really happy that its all done. I epoxy Primered the car
> and parts over the weekend to prevent rust from taking hold.
>
>
> Next step is to put the Front and Rear end on the car so it rolls and
> then take it to the frame shop to fix the passenger front rail. Will
> let him tell me if I need a replacement or if he can bend it back. Or
> the 3rd possibility that the prior repair and alignment is OK, but I
> don't think that's the case.
>
>
> The sand blast did uncover significant amounts of bondo. I think the
> car was crashed, motor removed and body work completed but then never
> had the motor returned. It was then sold to Steve W, and I bought it
> in 95. The problem is the driver rear fender is in very bad shape,
> the door is fine (probably replaced) and the front fender minor
> damage. I'm at a cross road as the car has flares (best image of the
> flares
> <https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNhx7DaGd_6kYAxzcDV2Mr52Mwj-VqG2phw7NmWCZQmIg2bjwpI-WiHGl28V-WURg/photo/AF1QipPbhwRexXIJJ2bSVHcDEfYM_lnQN8xj6YX9UPw?key=ZXNOMzVCTENIOHlnN0txMk5GbkRaWVNDS3l5Unln>)
> at
> all 4 corners. Do I seek out a donor fender for the rear and transfer
> the flare? Do I put a stock fender on and then remove the flares from
> the other 3 piecing in new arches? Anyone have a driver
> rear fenders for sale plus 3 arches? Anyone have the same style of
> steel rear flare tucked away in the garage?
>
> dan
>
>
> Most recent photos are at the end of the album. Primary purpose of
> the photos are to help me put this thing back together...
>
> https://goo.gl/photos/9fkVPwxGhw1mMKuM6
>
>
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