49 Hudson project

The Hudson has been taken a part and put on the rotisserie to repair all the rust damage that has been uncovered. This allows me to turn the car to get to the rusty areas.

 At the front of the car there  is 1970 Chrysler sub frame grafted to the Hudson frame for the the 70 suspension to mount to and a transmission cross member further back for the transmission and torsion bars. at all these locations the welds had cracked and started to separate. I'm surprised the front of the car did not fall off.

 All areas were re welded and stiffener plats added to fix the frame.

 This is at the cross member where the torsion bar connects to it.

 The 49 Hudson is a unibody with a front sub frame the outer frame of the body on both sides had rusted badly and never fixed with the front being worse than the back.

 Above and below show the out side and inside of the frame at the front floor pan and fire wall.

 This is the rear frame at the spring perch.

 Passenger side with new 18 ga. metal before the rocker was reinstalled.

 Back passenger side repaired.

 Rear spring perch with 1/8 plate added on frame then spring hanger re welded.

 These two pictures are of the driver side main fire wall and cowl support that is 75% rusted away.

 Inside front body frame at driver side floor pan also gone.

 The main body support from the sub frame to the outer body frame, on both sides, had rusted away and new reinforcement plates had to be made,

 This is the front fire wall/cowl pillar after repair.

 Front (above) and rear (below) of the driver side body frame after repair work.

Both rocker panels were sand blasted and the inside painted before they were reinstalled.

New driver side floor pan welded in place.

 Most of the front of the car is repaired. I will sand blast the front frame and fire wall next then fit and install a new upper fire wall panel. Not looking forward to the back of the car it looks as bad as the front from under neath the car and the trunk floor pan must be replaced.