Sunday, May 29, 2016

The last bit

With the hood done, there is only one part of major bodywork left on the Viper.  When this car hit whatever it hit(probably a pole), it slid along the driver's door and into the quarter panel.  The side sill had already been replaced when I got the car.  The door was a total loss.  Even a cheap bastard like me could see that it was more trouble that it was worth to try to fix.  The quarter panel is another matter.  It could be replaced, but the damage wasn't too bad and I'm me.

Let's have a look at the damage, shall we?  You can see from the panel gap that the bottom of the quarter is shoved back almost 3/4".


The quarter is shoved back to the point where the quarter is almost touching the sill.  It's also got some cracking along the edges where it flexed too much, and you can see from here the split in the sill.

The inner sill is all cracked up too.  None of the underlying metal is bent, but the fiberglass is cracked in several places.  You can kind of see how the bottom of the sill is shoved back a bit too.


Here's the main crack in the quarter panel.  You can see that it's buckled a bit just below where it's riveted on.  You can also see the spalling radiating out from around the visible crack indicating that the crack extends under the paint a ways.
 
Fixing these areas will be just like all the other areas, with one minor addition.  But we'll get to that next time :)

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