the rear spoiler was pointing a little to the drivers side and the tail panel was pushed in and down so pulled the bumper off and hammer time its all back where it belongs i think
Yes Jean I do, rust also, I hate finding other peoples work if it isn't done right. Really alot people have a problem with bondo and done right I've seen out last good metal, not saying I would want it 1" thick or anything but it is what saves a fender that has a few dents etc.......
Bondo (plastic filler) has gotten a bad rap due to backyard bodymen. Even the most beautiful 100 point show car more than likely has some plastic smoothing done to it somewhere. Unless every panel one your car is perfect and factory fresh or assembled with ding free NOS (usually hard to find) or Repop sheetmetal there is generally some skimming of bondo on every straight and freshly painted car out there. Most people associate bondo with rust hiding or dent cover-up but even if you hammer a dent out most of the time you're gonna need bondo to smooth it ...
This is true. What really gets me is when you start grinding down the old filler and you just keep grinding and grinding. We have a 72' Mustang Mach 1 we are currently working on that has bondo in the quarters almost a half inch thick in places. I actually took an air chisel to it to chip it out. Backyard bodymen or just inexperianced bodymen have the idea that you can load the stuff on without working out the dents. The less bondo the better.
I helped with my body work. We used plenty of it, and the majority of it ended up as dust on the floor. There is nothing wrong with it provided you aren't using it to cover rust. Seth
I had to build out my rear 1/4 with it, had a nice long dent, almost a kink, I hammered it out as close as I could get it without going past the rest of the metal and filled with plastic. at it's thickest, I'd say it is maybe 1/4", nad that is right at the line of the body to make it match the rest of the line. I know it's not the right way to fix something, but I don't see a huge problem with how I did it. When I got the car, 2 panels already had a lot of plastic in them. The guy that did the previous work was pretty good really, pulled the dents out as close as he could get them, and smoothed the wrinkles with plastic, you can't hardly tell what's plastic in there b/c it's not concealing rust. My passenger side door has a skim coat all down it, as well the panle behind it, little rust breaking out there, needs to be reworked. I had a 72 Chevelle, and the 1/4s were filled with plastic to fill the rust. I kicked it one day, and found all sorts of uncured bondo, pencils, screens, and anything else they could use to back the plastic hit the ground. Needless to say, I don't think I'll bring anything to that HS body shop like my grandmother did
1972 Maverick Grabber 393W 1971 Maverick Grabber restoration project V8.auto on the floor .bucket seats looks like ya been so busy with that 69 forgot to put it in there As for the car what did you run into?
