pensylvania bondo bucket

[mart]

its too tight to remove with my fingers....dont want to wreck an expensive bit of kit, will give it a gentle prise with a screwdriver sometime. I might re locate the battery to the trunk in the future, so a good rewire/rethink is needed to keep things neat

[TexasUK]

I think it will need an earth back to the engine as well as a live, I personally wouldn't trust the body to provide a good enough grounding.

Wire that thick is quite expensive, and I'd route through the inside if possible.

I like the idea of getting as much ancillary wise as possible into the trunk, just to help with weight distribution. I'd put it on the passenger side as well.

[mart]

It worked fine with my Studebaker, all steel cars use the body as their earthing, although, Corvairs have thinner metal than anything else Ive ever restored. Theres a very useful tunnel under the corvair to route any cables along, which will have loads of room as I wont be using the stock heater system ducting

[mart]

engine back in with new seal

[azdave]

Awesome as always! That is going to be such a nice ride when it's done.

[mart]

here we go again...drivers side this time

[terribleted]

Yup that is not uncommon. I sense the fabrication of involved patches in your future. Have fun!!

[mart]

As expected...more expanded foam

[terribleted]

I guess car butchers really like expanding foam. It can apparently be used to rebuild structural items as well, like the subframe under the drivers floor as you can see in these photos (the foam on the floor in the first one is what came out of the drivers subframe and floor in the second one...the floor looked excellent from the bottom before I started digging at it):

[mart]

I still havent worked out if these people are criminals or just stupid

[terribleted]

I still havent worked out if these people are criminals or just stupid

Exactly!!

[Mwmwall]

Mart,

Great work and greater perseverance. Just went back and read your entire thread plus the other one on the PA Bondo Bucket and I vote criminal. My two experiences, my 76 Lincoln Mark IV and my 89 Bentley Mulsanne S (actually bought an 89 Silver Spur that was such a POS I traded the seller/dealer for the Bentley. AND I had to pay shipping from, back to him and from again.), were both unpleasant. I asked many, many specific questions and both sellers lied through their teeth. Not subjective assessments but quantifiable, objective, court worthy evidence. I really, really wanted to sue but cost, jurisdictional issues and enforcing a judgment made the legal route a non-starter. Getting a judgment and getting the seller to satisfy the judgment are two very, very different things.

I'm starting to look for an EM rag-top and your experience with rust issues coupled with my own poor purchases will be very helpful WHEN I SEE THE CAR IN PERSON before I buy. Unlike me, at least you were smart enough to do it only once! What's the saying, 'Burn me once, shame on you. Burn me twice, shame on me? Or, Too soon old, too late smart? I'm not a big believer in Caveat Emptor but I draw a distinction between that legal construct and deliberate misrepresentation. Now I trust but verify. I've found some nice things that way, advertised accurately, and have avoided more repetition of these two transactions.

In summary, just a long winded vote for criminal

Mark

[mart]

I also have done it more than once. My previous purchase was a 57 Studebaker, from Texas that needed a whole new floor and trunk welding in. It took me a year...But I was happy because I ended up with one of the worlds most beautiful cars in my garage

[Mwmwall]

Sharp two-tone! BTW, worked for Tate & Lyle for a bit when they were still over on Sugar Quay. Nobody this side of the pond knows who the heck they are but they all know their top product, Splenda.

Mark

[UGLYTRUK]

The blue '67 was wrecked during a "test drive" by a friends friend, 16 years old, 1981

Wow!!! I just read all 19 pages, every word! Here's a couple of Corvairs I pushed into the woods 30+ years ago... They may still be there. Ignore the datecode, the pix are in my photo album

[mart]

more PA style structural repairs, I'm surprised this poor car didnt fold up in half, it wouldnt need to go to the crusher thats for sure, an eight year old kid trained in origami could do it