Re: Minion Missile - 1973 Colombian Patrol Project
Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 11:00 pm
Hello Don. It is not usuall see a car in Colombia with a very poor quality of body repairs as your car. As maybe I told you before this is the explanation about the corrosion found on top of body when you removed hard top. By sure someone remove the hard top to works on rear panels and re install the hardtop wihtout any protection leading on a big corrosion problem. We have removed Colombian Hard top from 1961 Patrol and the body condition was perfect.
About hinges I have seen some cases where it is cover all the area with epoxy and after remove the holes and nut are there, but if the rear panels were changed almost sure there are not the original holes. The doors and hinges are exact reporduction and fit perfect on original hinges holes.
I hpe you can reapir this
Thanks
Raul R
About hinges I have seen some cases where it is cover all the area with epoxy and after remove the holes and nut are there, but if the rear panels were changed almost sure there are not the original holes. The doors and hinges are exact reporduction and fit perfect on original hinges holes.
I hpe you can reapir this
Thanks
Raul R
mad4hws wrote:started stripping paint. what a PITA! to get to where I have gotten, I have used a wire wheel on a grinder. It works, but man it's a lot of work. As the type who generally avoids anything that resembles the four letter W word, I decided to invest in the Eastwood SCT. That should make quick work of most of the paint/rust, but it's on back-order so will take a few weeks to get here. I'm slammed with work work, so that's okay.
So, interesting observation today. I have my home office set-up in the garage, next to the Patrol, during this COVID debacle. As it turns out, it's the best room in the house - it has lots of room, lots of light and is pretty well insulated from all the crazy kid noise. Today, as I was day dreaming and not working I was looking at the rear of the Patrol, something didn't quite look right. The rear passenger side panel was welded in crooked. The result is that the barn door gap is a whopping 3/4" wider on the top as compared to the bottom. I have never really welded before, so I'm trying to take my time. In order to address this issue, I think I can leverage my woodworking skills to work to square this panel up. breaking the welds won't be too bad - they' big and ugly, not the spot welding variety, but thankfully there's only 3 of them to concern myself with. My plan is to get this panel squared up and the barn doors attached/aligned. Once I do that, I can work on replacing the rusty top rail and the ugly welds on the side next to the gas filler cap. Now I just need to summon the courage to cut....