| I have
stopped working on the wheel well openings as the rear
door sills and rocker panels need to be repaired before
the wok can continue on the wheel wells. Progress is
being made on both sides but thought I would only show
pictures of the left side so that jumping between the
left and right side does not cause confusion in what you
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So this is what I have to work
with. There is enough to see the basic form but not much
more. There are certainly enough holes that the car will
fill with smoke on the first burn out! |
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Here is the offending piece cut
out. |
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tried to make life easier and purchased the rocker panel
extension for an aftermarket vendor. In the pictures
below you see the comparison to the form of the original
body part to the form of the aftermarket piece. They are
no even close. |
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So I dropped back yet another step
and created the floor piece using the original piece cut
from the car as a form |
| I then
created the correct curve to match the rocker extension
from the floor piece. |
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| Then I
modified the aftermarket piece to fit the curved piece
that was made to fit the floor piece which was made to
firt the original piece. Then the forward part of the
rocker panel was created. |
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All those pieces were tacked
together and then the work on the inner rear wheel well
started. |
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| I'm
pretty happy with the way it turned out. I was given
some suggestions on how to get to this point, but kind
of went my own way. I certainly learned some good stuff
along the way! |
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