How To Restore Classic Car Bodywork: Tips, Techniques, Step-By-Step Procedures

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This book is your complete guide to all aspects of body and chassis restoration for all metal-bodied cars.

The comprehensive text provides step-by-step instructions along with over 360 color photographs and includes expert advice on how to patch panels, fitting new panels, removing dents, how to make replacement panels, how to cut and weld metal, how to form metal into complex shapes, how to protect against rust, and more.

Table of Contents:

Introduction

Scope of the Book:
Buying your classic vehicle | Vehicle construction | Mild steel sheet: surface tension | Spot welds and spot welding.

Chapter 1. Rust—Know Your Enemy:
Protection.

Chapter 2. Tools, Equipment & Workspace:
Basic tools: hand tools, hydraulic gear, power tools, welding gear | The workspace.

Chapter 3. Workshop Safety
Spedific hazards: welding | Power tools | Hand tools.

Chapter 4. Basic Panel Removal
A very simple panel | Front fender | A real life example | Drilling spot welds | Alignment | Welding at last | Welding completed | Problem areas.

Chapter 5. Basic Panel Fitment
Alignment | Welding at last | Welding completed | Problem areas.

Chapter 6. Sectional Repairs to Basic Panels
Circular patches: corner repair section, sill end | Salvaged panel sections | Typical lower wing (fender) sectional repair | Proprietary fender bottom section | Proprietary boot (trunk) lid section | Supporting structures and alignment | Section upon section | Bowl sections | Pillar joints | Methods of joining and fixing: gas welding, soldering, chemical bonding, cold rivers, pop rivets.

Chapter 7. Doors
Door construction | Problem areas: window frames, hinges and supports, check-strap, removal and handling, door bottoms | Basic door skinning procedure: tools and equipment | Starting off: grind off the return edge, de-seam, how's your bottom?, split off the skin, clean up, position of the new skin, seal and clamp, tap up, fettle | A few good tips | Extra safety.

Chapter 8. Sills, Floors & Outriggers
Triumph Spitfire sills and floor: assessment, set up and support, work order | The Triumph Stag: tread-plate sills on a separate chassis car | Half sill section and oversills: half sills, the oversill.

Chapter 9. Chassis Members—Repair and Renewal
The basic checks: lift check, drop check, the jig | Outriggers: example 1, a bit more on safety and fuel lines, example 2 | Repairs to chassis main rails: miscellaneous.

Chapter 10. More About Floors
Typical mid-floor repair: half floor sections, making floor sections.

Chapter 11. Multiple Panel Assemblies
Triumph GT6: inner wheelarch rebuild, rejoining the inner wheelarch to the hood, fitting new fenders | Lamp panel repair | D-plate and innder valance.

Chapter 12. Wheelarches
The options: assessment | Replacing a wheelarch: inner wheelarch repair, welding the new wheelarch | Making a new wheelarch: shape formers, forming the wheelarch | Half round repair section | Arch lip repair | Templates: remove old metal, fix the new metal | Full rear quarter panel/rear fender replacement: concealed welds, brazed joints, etc. | Pillar joints | Internals | The inner wheelarch and location | Half panel sections | Welding.

Chapter 13. Metal Forming Techniques & Panel Beating
Basic metal forming techniques: folding, curving or rolling, shrinking and stretching, edge spreading, cold shrinking | Planishing, raising, and hollowing: planishing, hollowing, raising.

Chapter 14. Basic Hammer Exercises
Planishing | Rasing and hollowing: the teardrop bowl, 6-in. bowl from a 7-in. disc!, annealing | Folding, curving and shrinking: bonnet (hood) scoop | Fabrication: Dorian's spoiler.

Chapter 15. MGB Facelift
The design: constructing the station former, creating the blank, hollowing, raising and planishing | Finishing the edges: folding, flanging, swaging, wiring, welding panel sections.

Chapter 16. Panel Repair Techniques
Principles | Assessment | Roughing out | Hammer and dolly work: indirect hammering, direct hammering | Other panel beating techniques: spring hammering, pick hammer, hot shrinking, faux shrinking | Metal finishing: the body file, the bumping file | Finishing up.

How To Restore Classic Car Bodywork: Tips, Techniques, Step-By-Step Procedures