Putty work and Door Repair
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The rear driver fender crease is going to take a lot of dressing out.	The driver tailligh area is just a very large shallow dent.
The lead seam was very easy to dress out.	The driver lightlight are need a bit more on the rear curve.
The lead seam on the passenger side took even less time.	The passenger taillight took almost nothing to dress out.
The passenger dog leg took two small sections on the exterior body surface. The door lips were another matter entirely.	The bottom of one door - a little bit of rust and a whole lot of pitting.
The driver door had some small pinhole rust spots. These would be cut out and fixed with new metal.	More rust areas on the driver door.
Really bad pitting.	The window channel pitting was fixed with just a bit of putty.
The shallow dent on the roof was fixed quickly, or so we thought.	The rear driver door had some holes of rust to fix as well.
More rust on the rear driver door.	The driver door had new metal welded in to fix the rust holes.
The old piece is shown sitting in front of the replacement metal.	Once the edge was fixed, the interior surface was then fixed.
The rust in the driver rear door will be cut out and patched with new metal..	The rust on the inside of the door would cause many people concern, but POR15 likes rusty metal. Just as with Betsy, the inside of the doors will be coated with POR15 to stop the rust.
After cleaning up the really bad rust, Kurt decided to weld in new metal for the bottom edge of the door.	The welded up driver door corner.
The ugly welds cleaned up nicely.	The driver door needed a little putty work along the bottom. To repair the rust on the bottom, Kurt peeled back the skin, then put it back. That process left many small divets in the skin of the door. Never again.
The ripped off mirror on the driver door was a challenge to fix and get the curves correct.	The driver rear fender would prove to be the most challenging and time consuming spot to fix. The wheellip took many hours to get it just right.