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Welcome from Fredericksburg. If you haven't heard, the Karb Kings are having there annual show in Fredericksburg on Oct. 13th. It's well worth the drive down from Alexandria.

Dead in the water :eek: I've been really busy with customer work. Doesn't leave any time to work on my own stuff but does keep the lights on when I do get back on it [cl

Thanks guys! Chop pics coming soon, I promise :D

Thanks guys! [;)

Passenger side goes the same way. Cut giant hole. Install enough cleco's to make Frankenstein blush Set nice tight gaps Pass. side quarter is ready to start welding in. Hey! It looks like a 2 door all of a sudden! Every day is one day closer to the fun part...

Cool, glad to hear you could get something out of this thread, makes it worth posting! This video can explain Cleco's better and quicker than I ever could by typing ---> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgEIVUVLrnQ

I feel old...I'm closing in on 23 :eek:

Got my roof all welded up and started finishing it. Slowly but surely coming out nice, gonna take quite awhile. I'm really pleased how the driprail came together. Got the quarter panel seam welded up as well, gonna be a pain to finish since I can't get behind it to work on...

Thanks guys! At my age, nobody believes me unless I got a ton of pics...lol [;)

Glad you like it so far! I'm trying to do this stuff full time, we'll see how it works out [P

Bitchin! 4/5 and slanted pillars is what I've got in mind for mine. Any more pics?

And all this just to get to the "hard part". :eek: Will keep it updated as I go along.

Thanks Tyster! Thanks man! All I can say is go for it! It's only metal, pound on it long enough and it'll look like you want it to. Awsome, glad you can get something out of it, makes it worth the time of posting it! [cl I wish that was one days work! It's 4 days working roughly 9-5 minus...

And here's how it currently sits, looking quite a bit more 2 door-ish if I do so say myself [;)[P

Getting everything fitted up just right before welding is the most crucial part. I made a handful of these tabs to keep everything cleco'd in place like so.. A piece of TIG wire makes an easy contour gauge to see if anything needs bumped around before tack welding. After getting...

Since the 2 door quarter is 1/2" larger than the cut in the car I was able to drill through both and cleco them together to keep everything in place. Once you're satisfied that everything is lined up like you want it, scribe a line around the panel. Then remove the quarter, trim to the...

Here's the difference in the 4 door and 2 door quarter. Here's the rotted out pencil that fell out when I pulled the quarter off. To get rid of the remaining piece of the wheel tub I took a screwdriver and pried loose what I could to see where the spot welds were. Then I took the cut off...

Now to get that ugly 4 door quarter off of there. First thing, I cut the outer rocker loose. I couldn't tell exactly where the end piece tied in and if it would hold the quarter on or not, so I cut that out next. I then cut loose the welds holding the pillar to the wheel tub. And the...

Next up I made another sharpie holder 1/2" longer than the first and marked a second line on the donor panel to make the donor panel 1/2" larger than the cut on the car. I then trimmed the excess of the donor panel and punched some holes in the wheel lip so I could plug weld it back to the...

When I get to the point of chopping it I'm gonna cut the rear window out and move it forward, so I made another sharpie holder, this time a little longer and marked the rear window cut so it would share the quarter panel cut line. However, since I'm posting these pics after doing some work, I...