My Comet GT Build

Wow. Sumpin was very, very hungry. Yikes! I don't think I want to look under my cowling now.

 

FInally got the drivers side quarter panel on this weekend. I had already repaired it with these pieces that I cut from another car. But I was never happy with the quality of the metal that was left. Luckily I acquired a bunch of NOS stuff back in 09. Among them was 3 quarter panels.



So cut the repaired quarter panel off and did a proper repair on the wheel well housing.





All the inner pieces and structure repaired and treated with rust encapsulator.



New quarter panel fitted and welded on.

 

Looking great! Where did you get that section for the outer wheel house? I have patched mine, but I would love to find nice outer wheel houses so I could do it right.

 

I bought 3 different "rust free" inner wheel houses off of ebay before I got one I was happy with. Still, it needed a little work. One I threw away, it was crap. I have the second one still. I can take a bunch of pictures of it if your interested. Maybe its better that what you have. I was going to trash it but if you want it, its yours. Up until this moment, I forgot I also have a 70 that is headed to the scrap pile soon (my convertible experiment). As I recall, it might be in pretty good shape. I'll check it out for you. I originally promised it to a friend but I found him a 99 % rust free body in Richmond that we went and picked up weekend before last. So he wont be needing it now.

Just incase your interested, this was my convertible. I haven't given up on it, I just decided to go with a 4 door chassis for the longer wheel base.

http://mmb.maverick.to/showthread.php?t=13190&highlight=convertible
http://mmb.maverick.to/showthread.php?t=13569&highlight=convertible
http://mmb.maverick.to/showthread.php?t=13764&highlight=convertible

 

Nice job Dennis, you are rolling!!!!!! Send some of that motivation my way, we need to get together.

 

Sweet!! You make me feel guilty...I gotta get out to the garage!!!

 

Nice work!!!! How many spot welds in a quarter?

 

Beautiful work, Dennis!

 

Yes, very impressive, indeed!

I think most of us could use some of that motivation!

 

I'm thoroughly impressed.

 

Building a trailer hitch. Since I plan to use this car as a driver, I want to take my harley on trips with me. So I figured I build a hitch and pick up a motorcycle trailer. I figures max towing weight would be around 1200 lbs. So I picked up a 1 1/4" x 6" receiver tube. They are good up to around 3500 lbs so it is more than adequate for my application. Plus the smaller size is more compact than the standard 2" receivers. I also picked up 4 feet of 12" wide steel, 1/4" thick to make all the mounts.

First step is to lay out the safety chain holes and hole for the receiver tube. I was originally going to try and bend it into shape but even with my oxy/acc torch, it was too much area. I I had to cut it into sections and weld it together.



The finished rear mount.



Next step is to mount it on the rear frame. The rear frame is not perfectly flat. It tapers slightly. Plus you have to put something in there to keep from crushing the rail when you tighten it up. The solution was to make some solid spacers. I had this 1 1/4" steel shaft that I dont remember where or when I got it, but I'm glad I did. Its good to be a pack rat. So I cut off a couple of 2" sections, bored a 1/2" hole, and cut them so they were flush with the back side of the frame rail. Then welded them in. Once the bottoms were welded, I bored the 1/2" hole through the trunk floor. Then I Drilled a 1/8" hole through the trunk floor on each side of the 1/2" hole to plug weld the spacer on the top side.





The finished rear mount. I will weld the nuts to the mount so all I have to do is drop the bolts through the trunk floor and tighten them down. I will reinforce the trunk floor with a 1/4" plate. I plan on using the holes in the frame that the original tie downs were bolted to for the front mount. They are already reinforced with anti crush sleeves. This way the hitch will be removable in a couple of minutes with only 6 bolts. I will add some gussets to the top of the mount just for over kill.

 

Really like how clean you built that, looks like it belongs in there.

 

Looks good Dennis, nice looking welds. Sticking with the plan I see.

 

Looks great Dennis. Your work always impresses me.

 

Very nice!