The wheelhouse and fender from hell.

The fender from hell started out as just an innocent slather of body filler shown here. I marked out the section to cut, and decided to do the optional little upper "square" by itself, this way I didn't need to fabricate the drastic curve and bend to the left of it. Besides, the metal was fine there. What was revealed behind the fender here would be the start of a massive undertaking to re-build the inner wheel house, which had deteriorated really, really bad on this side. -TH



Chopping the old crap out...



The money shot. Ohhh yeah, a pint of body filler for one fender! -TH



Behind the fender, the wheel housing had completely seperated from the inner fender. It was going to take lots of fabricating pieces, bends, and welding to nasty, rusty metal to put this thing back together. -TH



Meanwhile, Sara ground down the welds on the other side, where I had welded the rocker panel on. Turned out pretty good! -TH

I'd been around these past few days, but didn't have much to do since Tim was busy fabricating half the car as best he could before he could weld anything on. So, I checked my email a lot, tried finding cheap junk on craistlist.org and kept him company. I'll be back in the swing of grinding away the boogers just as soon as I can...! -SB



This project ended up taking two nights. I left the first night pretty bummed out, as the inner wheel housing was taking forever, and welding to dirty metal always sucks. There just wasn't enough room to fit a grinder in there and clean the metal up in some spots. It was tough. Real tough. -TH