Does anyone here have a 67 front drivers side fender for sale? I have everything else ordered, but would like to get a fender locally so we don't have to pay for truck freight.

 

Fender? Did you wreck your newly painted coupe?

 

i think dad backed into it ..

 

Paint actually doesn't look that great to me anymore. It seems to have a haze down the entire passenger side of the car, along with many other areas on the car. Also found at least 4 cracks in the paint already. But now pretty much the entire front end is getting painted, but I don't think I'll get a full paint job.

And yeah it got hit in the driveway, bent hood, bent fender, cracked headlight buckets, bent radiator support, bent hood latch, messed up the grille, pushed fenders back, pushed hood back onto cowl, and chipped chunks of paint off the cowl.


So my turn signal hood is going to get blasted today, and I'll get it back soon. Have the headlight buckets, grille, radiator support, and hood trim ordered. And I'll order the fender over the weekend if no one here has one.

 

Who did the bodywork, underlayment, and shot the paint?

 

I did bodywork and prep work between primer and paint. Yager off of hsvracing did the paint and 1 layer of primer. Only 2 of the cracks are where I did bodywork, but they aren't a big deal. 2 others are around my door handle on the drivers door and I didn't do anything to it. They also weren't there with the old paint job.

 

the cracks are probobally stress cracks in the metal coming thru,

alot of people do not realize how important prep work is on paint, and i dont only mean smoothing the body out, actual repairs to metal eg.. cracks, dents ect ,

if you are going to repaint anyehere where it is cracking, take it down to metal and start from there, weld any cracks, replace any rusted thru metal, and keep the filler very thin, use a dent puller if you have to pull the metal to as close to itsoriginal location and then use a body hammer and dolly to releave stress around the dents.

do not use rattle can primer.... it does not bond or seal anywhere close to a 2 part primer


if someone backed into my car they would aqqure a permanent limp, at the very least.

 

I'll see about the cracks on the drivers door, the others are very minor(less than 1/2" long)so I wouldn't worry about them. The ones on the door are at least 2" long and 1 is on the body line arc above the handle and then one vertical beside the handle.

The headlight buckets are more or a rip I guess. It is all the way through the metal. I'll upload a picture of them in a few

 

 

Big mistake.

 

Well the areas are where I bondo'd on what I've been told a flex point is.

 

you would need to work the metal some to make it not flex, usually there is a dent and the crease is what is causing it to flex, by working the crease out it can relieve the stress and no longer flex.

 

As I recall you used spot putty on your Stang that was obsolete before you were born. Did your Dad have good insurance!?

 

I used bondo in these areas, and we aren't going through insurance for it because its not worth it. The mustang only has liability and I want to say its been like that for about 2 years. I'm going to go through hagerty when I'm old enough. I will be paying I think $50 a month with a value of $10k.

 

the mustang was not the initiating vehicle, what about the one that actually hit the mustang does it have liability so it would cover the repair.

 

We aren't going through insurance at all

 

Ordered fenders today

 

fenders? both of them?

 

For $50 more you could get both fenders. It was either $320 for one shipped or $370 for both, so I decided to go ahead and get both.

 

Where did you get them?