On the right hand side of the car the problems were a bit worse than expected.
I had noticed something about the shape of the rear pillar, and these patches
were a bit worse to get out than the previous ones. The new patches were
made a bit smaller than the old ones, and cutting those off left some score
marks in the sheetmetal. Some filler will remedy that. Someday I might try
lead...
A few of these patches have been made, and it still makes me wonder how a
California car can be this rotted. It was made in Tonawanda, New York, so it
might have spent part of its life there. Funny thing is that the bottoms of the
doors are in better shape than the rear pillars. That's new to me. Wonder if it
has been sitting under some kind of tarp? The hood was very badly rusted
too, and some bright previous owner has sand blasted it from the inside,
which has warped the outside skin severely. Good thinking... Duh.