'57 Chevy- here we are mocking up the body to see what kind of hidden problems there might be

'57 Chevy-Look at how bent the right hand frame rail is. It is down about 1 inch this will have to be straightened or the bumper will not fit

'57 Chevy- another good shot of the frame rail

'57 Chevy- There were a few things overlooked on the car when it was being engineered. Where does the fuel tank go, exhaust etc.

'57 Chevy-The coil overs stick up to high so we will have to cut the trunk floor out and move it up I think we will also build the exhaust at that time

'57 Chevy-Whoever did the metal work must not have had the frame when they did it

'57 Chevy-We installed a tremec 5 speed and removed the transmission tunnel.

'57 Chevy-Another shot of the transmission installed

'57 Chevy-Whoever started this car did not remove the old heater box and wiring we will need all of this out of the car to weld the holes in the firewall

'57 Chevy-Another shot of the dash

'57 Chevy-This shows the trunk floor removed

'57 Chevy-We removed the trunk all the way to backseat this will make the exhaust install much easier we will also fit the fuel tank

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'57 Chevy-This shows the panels installed and fitted.

'57 Chevy-We first discovered something was not right when we saw how the door stepped out on the bottom

'57 Chevy-This shows how much body filler was used to try and make horrible repair work a little more time...

'57 Chevy-This shows how thick the filler was and how high the overlay is.

'57 Chevy-This panel was laid over the rust and welded on about every 3 inches a repair like this would not last long and must be repaired properly the joys of taking on someone else's nightmare

'57 Chevy-This shot shows the overlay what you can not see is how high it is. It was only welded about every 3 inches

'57 Chevy-Look how the rust was already creeping up the door when it was sandwiched between the overlay it would not have been long and it would have found its way out

'57 Chevy-This is how the door looks once that overlay was removed that was a big patch for a very small spot of rust

'57 Chevy-This shows the heavy bondo line in the middle of the door

'57 Chevy-This shows some rust and rot on the bottom of this door we will cut this out and repair it with new metal

'57 Chevy-This rust has to be blasted off or it will come back within a year.

'57 Chevy-Minor repairs on the bottom lip

'57 Chevy-The inner lip of the door was actually good

'57 Chevy-Look at all the body filler on the door this was used to make there overlay blend it would not have lasted long

'57 Chevy-This is the door with the lower section removed we were able to reuse part of the lower patch panel that was previously installed which saved some time.

'57 Chevy-There must have been a partial quarter installed at one time on this car and it got rusty and another one was overlaid a real nightmare when trying to make a paint job last.

'57 Chevy-These type of patches are not level with the rest of the sheetmetal on the car this is why this car has 1/2 inch of body filler on the entire car...

'57 Chevy-This shot is in the top of the quarter panel there are patches over patches that are rusty and new patches over the rust this car needs full quarter panels to really be a nice car.

'57 Chevy-This pictures shows rust where there was patches done this work is not acceptable and the paint will not last if not repaired properly.

'57 Chevy-This shot shows some patches that were done at another shop they welded metal over rust this will not last long and will have to be removed and redone.

'57Chevy-This is not a very good picture of what we are trying to show there are a bunch of really bad repairs done this is the rear end of the car under the tail pan

'57Chevy-This shot shows the rear repairs that were done on the door see how the gaps are nice.

'57 Chevy-This shot shows the new patch welded in the door it is much smaller than the old patch.

'57 Chevy-Here is a shot of the fender after it was shortened to fit the rocker.

'57 Chevy-It is hard to see but look at the gold in the corner of the quarter panel this is brazing over rust and is really beat up. This will all have to be cut out and new metal welded in.

'57 Chevy-This picture shows a patch that was done prior to the car coming here it is usable because the rust was at least cut out but the fitment could have been much better...

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Cory Jungjohan '57 Chevy

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