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I wanted to hide this mess where the frame was cut apart and some less than beautiful cheapie welding occurred. I cut a piece from an...

Reinforced the upper mounts and finished welding the rear tabs and gusset.

I can’t begin to describe how upset Stacey is with me that I’ve neglected her mom for so long. So I’m way overdue for more structural...

I have to apologize to @Wildcat And tropical islanders everywhere, for making fun of people who weld in flip-flops. I cropped this view...

So the new flat bar on the bottom of this mess was at the bottom of the car. On top of it you can see a sliver of rusted away tunnel...

I had to dig deeper And deeper And deeper until I discovered solid metal, between the rust. This whole length was rust on rust...

The hole, roughed out. The new “horseshoe” can just be seen here. Also the ragged metal and blobby nutwelds. This is where the pedal...

I looked at one of those on a lift, about 1973, and it sure looked like a pain to service that driveshaft. I owned a Cadillac and two...

Ulu, this brings back bad memories of changing the carrier bearing on a 63 Impala two piece drive shaft. You had to get it all lined up...

As it turns out my scrap is not nearly big enough to make a patch that will cover this mess and make it look stock again. I decided...

I thought I could live with this old repair, but then I brushed out all the dirt and scale inside and out: Pinholes! Blobby welding...

After some chiseling, and some grinding, and much flap-sanding, this is already looking much cleaner inside. I finally decided to try...

I made some long tools to sand and grind inside the tunnel. I got a lot of metal cleaned up inside, but it’s not nearly ready for...

Getting the control tubes cut out turned out to be a day’s work. I gave up after half a day. Much less, actually. There was much...

1954 Chevy 210. 3 on the tree. Base model. They had a 210 Deluxe and the very deluxe Bel Aire using the same body. Was my grandmothers...