For my daily driver I took a less ambitious approach. 1st I bought an 82 Trans Am with v8 and a stick for $650. It needed alot of mechanical work as just about everything on it was worn out or just plain done wrong. Probably the biggest cosmetic flaw was that the passenger rear fender was crushed up pretty bad as the previous owner had not set the parking brake and it rolled back and hit a telephone pole, or so he had said. Fortunately, the work the previous owner had done on the fender had helped and not made the damage worse. He used a hydraulic jack to push out the fender out to roughly where it should be.
fender flare
After I stripped the bondo, I used a slapper to line up the two sides of this brazed seam. I decided to leave the previous repair work as I still do not have tanks for my oxy/ace welder yet and since the metal is so thin, I am worried about causing warpage that I won't be able to easily access. This seam is maybe an 1/8 inch deep.
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