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Re: 1940 120 Convertible Coupe Restoration
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Appreciate the comments!

Posted on: 2015/6/16 6:41
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Re: 1940 120 Convertible Coupe Restoration
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I cut the jump-seat base out and made a new panel. This was an easy piece to make... the rest of the rear seat area kicked my butt...

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Posted on: 2015/6/16 6:42
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Re: 1940 120 Convertible Coupe Restoration
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Like the middle pans, the only thing I had to go by for the rear pans were the pictures and measurments taken earlier from another car. I made a (really) rough draft of a template to start mapping out the bead lines and body mount areas. The pictures I had were barely adequate to get the measurements correct, so there were a couple areas that all I could do was make the proportions look right. I doubt there will be any show judges crawling on their backs under the car with tape measures. Once I had the rough template in the car I made some corrections and transferred that to translucent paper. That template still needed some fine tuning before I could transfer the pattern to sheetmetal.

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Posted on: 2015/6/16 6:44
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Re: 1940 120 Convertible Coupe Restoration
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Checking the fit of the right rear pan. It's not in there straight since the outer rear edge needs to be turned down into a flange to fit against the fenderwell. Once that's done it'll slide all the way back into place. I'm 90% finished with the left pan so I can start welding the inner/outer rockers, quarter, and front lower cowl panels in place. The inner/outer rockers sandwich the floor pans so I needed to have all of the pans done before anything else could be welded in for good.

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Posted on: 2015/6/16 6:45
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Re: 1940 120 Convertible Coupe Restoration
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With the floor pans mostly roughed in I turned back to the section under the back seat. I had the center section made but needed to make the side pieces. The left side is fabbed and welded in, just started on the right side last week. I bent the back edges of the floor pans to fit against the rear seat floor section. Also trimmed the rear seat pan to fit up nicely once it's ready to weld in, and drilled holes for the plug welds.

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Posted on: 2015/7/13 15:07
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Re: 1940 120 Convertible Coupe Restoration
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You can see how the back edge of the floor pan will weld to the inner fenderwell and bottom of the seat pan.

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Posted on: 2015/7/13 15:08
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Re: 1940 120 Convertible Coupe Restoration
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This is looking into the right quarter panel from the inner fenderwell. The fenderwell should be covering this, so you can't see in... I decided to go ahead and cut this area out since it was in such bad shape and the rear seat pan edges needed to weld to the fenderwell.

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Posted on: 2015/7/13 15:09
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Re: 1940 120 Convertible Coupe Restoration
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After cutting out the lower front fenderwell and edge of the seat pan. It's amazing that the car didn't collapse in on itself; this was a body mount area that is completely rotted away.

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Posted on: 2015/7/13 15:10
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Re: 1940 120 Convertible Coupe Restoration
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Made a new seat pan edge, blasted and painted the floor braces with Por15, and made a template for the inner fenderwell skin.

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Posted on: 2015/7/13 15:12
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Re: 1940 120 Convertible Coupe Restoration
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Good going John! I just wondering is there any part that is still original, because it looks like you have been replacing everything, and your doing an excellent job at it.
Keep us posted.
Wes

Posted on: 2015/7/17 1:59
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