Sheriff's K-9 Car Show 41 Cad. Rust Fix

On November 4 we took the 60 Ford Starliner and the 65 Thunderbird to the Mohave county Sheriff's car show in Fort Mohave about 100 miles from the house. Last year the Starliner won the Fireman's Pick award and is featured on this years T-Shirt.

 The T-Shirt has last years winners and all the K-9 dogs that this car show helps support.

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 This is the first outing and car show for the Thunderbird and on the way over the fuel delivery system failed (FiTech) and we had to put it into the car trailer to bring it the rest of the way.

 It was a little overcast and cool but Karen and Charley enjoyed the show.

 3 Pictures below are some of the cars at the show.

 This 50 Studebaker won an award.

 58 Edsel is another award winner.

 My Daughter (Michelle), Son in-law (Bobby) and Granddaughter (Dani) came from Coeur d' Alene Idaho. Dani is who the 65 Mustang is for and she will be doing the work on it.

 The 41 Cadillac rust restoration is an ongoing project, the 3 pictures below is before and after a patch was made on where the left rear fender bolts on.

 The inside of the wheel well was also rusted through and a patch made that also supports the roof.

 The floor pan of the trunk (bottom) had rusted away from the back of the wheel well and was hanging loose, strips of new metal were cut and welded into place after the rust was cut out.

 This is what is left of the inside of the rocker panel where all the body to frame mounts are attached.

 This is the inside of the left wheel well top where the roof side panels tie into the lower body to support it (completely rusted away) that will be re welded to the wheel well patch in the 3rd picture above.

 Another picture of the rocker panel damage.

 Above and below is the top of the inside of the windshield. The passenger side was mostly still there but the driver side was completely gone.

 These two pictures show the paper pattern I made to fabricate new pieces.

 New pieces installed. This took several try's to get the angles and curves right and about 4 day's of work.

 If you look at this picture sideways it shows the repaired drivers side of the top of the windshield.                    
                                     

 The cowl was rusted through and patched.

 The top was also rusted through and patched.

Still a long way to go on this rust restoration before I can start joining the 41 body to the 07 floor pans.
Next week we will take the 65 Thunderbird to the Good Guys Scottsdale show.