Here's me at one of my happier times during the restoration, and it seems also during my Lyle Lovett hairdo phase.  My fingers can be seen poking through a hole in the cove - I found this hole was filled up by a piece of tin that was riveted in place and covered with body filler.  In fact, most of the cove was just body filler.  Just above my head is the section of the car where the new front clip was attached.  Once again, it was done with minimum fiberglass, maximum filler.

This is the left rear taillight panel.  The grey area to the right is the body filler used to join the new rear quarter panel to the body.  Underneath the filler was another set of tin plates held in with rivets.  These were also found in the join above the left rear wheelwell.  I was quite surprised when, using the trusty grinder to get rid of the filler, I started getting sparks.  Needless to say, the filler, tin, and rivets were all removed and the repair was done with fiberglass.

This photo shows the body, after most of the repairs have been done (about 500 hours of bodywork to get it this far!).  It is on the crates so that I could get under the body to paint it.  I know these cars were not painted underneath, but there was so much repair to do, and so much ground-in crap underneath the body that leaving it as raw fiberglass would have looked lame.  Not that anyone ever looks UNDER the car, but I wanted to do it for my own peace of mind.  The ropes are keeping the body in place since we were due for a big storm later that night and I did not want the body to get blown over and break something.

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