47-55.1 Two Steps back. My high school chevy 1950 3100

[Roust]

Actually, I think I did THIS part first before doing the inner kick panel. Oh well

Here is my attempt at killing two birds with one stone. I asked that the passenger side louvers be removed and my "metal" guy certainly put his touch to it. So, I wanted to remove and replace the panel he put in the louver's place. I also wanted to remove that gap between the cowl and the upper cab "cap" area so that I didn't have to mess with lead or a large amount of filler. and I also wanted to removed the damage from there the passenger side mirror was. My solution was to just replace all that with one panel.

I used blue tape to make a template and then started cutting out some metal.


I am still working on controlling my cutting to keep the gaps between the original metal and my patches down to as little as possible. I am still struggling with that. But nothing a little bird turd can't fix!


Grind it down and all that. I ended up with lows where the welds are, but I don't want to risk making the original sub straight too thin, so I will have to settle for some body filler.


I missed something!
I didn't notice that there was a crown on the damn panel. Well to be fair there was no crown on the original as it was hacked to ****.
I can try to hammer it out a bit, or..... FILLER!!!!
here is a contour gauge highlighting the missing shape from drivers' side to passenger side.


0.113" off


I will admit I am a little pissy about needing to turn to filler to fix these types of mistakes, as this is the kind of work I was redoing to avoid filler. But the amount needed here is orders of magnitude less than what was previously used. So I am not too put off.