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Thanks for the encouragement!

Yes, I've been waiting for a friend that I can talk into holding a dolly while I crawl in the trunk and hammer from the inside.

One of those jobs that keep getting pushed to the bottom of the stack.

Mine is dinged as well. Speed bumps are not the friend of the spare tire well.

Got some work done on the trunk area.

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sure am glad to see you back at it man! i can't wait till i get to get mine all cleaned up like this!

good show!

Hank

Well, it took a lot longer to get here than I had planned, but I finally rolled the Clipper into the booth today and sprayed the entire underside with Rhino Linings. I am very happy with how it turned out. The average thickness is around 150 mils. And I calculated that I added about 82lbs to the car. That should provide some great sound deadening and insulation value.

I plan to spray the entire floor pan and trunk area inside the car as well, but that will come at a later date.

Here's a couple pics of before and after.

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Nice work

Pushed the body outside and got the frame back in the shop for some much needed attention last weekend.

First thing was to straighten a cross member on the back of the frame. Looks like someone tried to hook onto it to pull something with the car.

It's now straight enough for my needs. I still need to weld up a couple of cracks that resulted from the original damage.

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Nice to see the Rhino work, and the frame and front clip back indoors. The bent frame member is probably from somebody trying to pull the car, rather than the other way around. Tough to bend it pulling with the car unless somebody took a run for it. This looks like it could've been the work of a winch when the car was planted solidly in the ground.

Wow keegan, you are coming along! I will start on my frame in a month or so, still to hot to work here in AZ.

Keegan,

Great job on your restoration of the Clipper Deluxe, it is looking good. I just bought a 51 Packard 200 that needs about the same amount of rust repair that yours did. I can't wait to get into it, but I was wondering what you used to create your offset flange on some of your panels? I saw it used on your quarter panels and seat bracket. I don't believe you mentioned the method in the write-up.