This will be a tricky body repair!

[geodon]

What I thought was "abuse" has turned out to be accident damage!

The pillar where the the top hinge on the drivers side attaches seems to have twisted & ripped away from the sheet metal panel. Probably as a result of getting hit in the door?

That shiny stuff is LEAD! ie real live lead-wiping from when before bog was invented. I think this one was stoushed when it was pretty new viz early 60's? they wiped the lead over but the vibratiions led to cracking.

Going to be hard to fix. I will remove the bulkhead & get the area horizontal & try to get a pool of braze to form around the repair that will hopefully key to the surrounding sheet metal. Or maybe silver solder (I'm showing my age, hey?). But, whatever I do it will be a battle scar.


Dismantling continuing apace. I'm pretty sure now that the orig colour was Desert Sands. That wheel looks green but it's the photo. You can see the Limestone wheel colour underneath where it's flaked off. There are bits of Desert sand around lots of the rivet heads too. Military??

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[THE BOOGER]

You can check to see if it was a mil landy on the REMLR site just need your chassis no but if it was desert sand i doubt it. Photos are a bit dark to see detail might need to turn your flash on:D

[COFFEY76]

g'day

Had very similar problem with my IIA the drivers door pillar with filled with bog but had been repaired soundly (ugly but sound), wasnt flat so the previous owner built it up. All i did was cut the old pillar off and weld on a new one. Went together pretty well, could have made it look much neater if i had to but ill live.