66 dart convertible

Just got home from Taylor Michigan after working on my house (hoping to sell it one of these day's) and did a little work on the dart.
After working on the house and tearing up my knee so bad I couldn't even walk on it , I decided to do some easy work on the dart and finished up the trunk pan and welded most of it back in. Well that went well (NOT).


I had the car on the rotisserie and climbed in to plug weld in a couple of places figuring that my weight would hold the pan in position. that worked !

But as soon as I shifted position I grabbed the trunk lid tension bars and pulled myself around the Damn Trunk came down and jammed shut (yeah I had put the lock latch on to test fit) scared the crap out of me I had the mig in there and it was wedging the trunk against the trunk rail and wouldn't let the latch release. I had to call (had cell phone in pocket)the Wife. After she quit laughing at me she opened the trunk and let me out. The pan is NOT completely welded in as of yet and WON'T be until I take the darn trunk lid off. that dumb mistake cost me 40 bucks or more because I now have to take her out to dinner (red lobster bribery ) or pictures will be posted all over facebook


anyway I decided to do a little more work in non confined spaces and welded the patches in the trunk extensions and test fit one side of the lower patch panel View attachment DSCF2455.JPG
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now all I have to do is figure out the best place to cut the lower patch panel to weld in (above body line in curved profile or below on the flat part
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