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Fred, Folks,
That is a cool video on the 42 four door! I remember watching that a while ago too. Now I can relate a lot better after helping John around his car.
John was busy getting the battery charged back up and quick check of the selinoid after several short runs. I assisted him in a prototype install of the rear window. I had never done this and damaged the rubber seal in several areas as we tried a couple approaches. Must be some tricks that we have not googled yet. But he did get the glass and seal in place. Next was some work on the damaged trunk latch area. Years of abuse, some rust and a couple hits in that trunk handle area were improved by John.
We had one instance where the trunk lid slamed down unexpectedly while we both working on the tool tray area. We were able to get all appendages out of the way in a nano second before it sealed and locked. Sure! it had not been latched for over 40 years! John drilled out the lock and was able to re-open the trunk lid for additional work on the lower latch area. It is preped to some run at welding the parts back together. I think he mentioned the elves coming in to do this while we we sleeping!
Will try to get some pictures up for him.
Ok here they are:
The kind of shiny spot is a golf ball size area that had a dent about 3/4 inch deep! John got a lot of the dent out with some heating and gentle persuasion from a small hole drilled in the inner trunk support. May be more work in this area at a latter date.
He also popped out some of the worst large dents in the damaged trunk skin. John says he thinks the owner backed in to a Moline tractor several times! No magic here. Just some small improvements to get it closer to not looking like a stock car after a bad Saturday night at the dirt track!
Regards,
Chris