Underhood dimensions 71 Swinger
Not to be confrontational but you have no idea whatsoever how I am going about the repair, nor do you know my level of education in the field, you are behind a keyboard assuming too many things and because of that you havent taken the opportunity to learn from me possibly a different way of looking at the situation. ( or asked me respectfully how I plan to go about the repair ) ( and then cut me too pieces if thats what turns you on )
I would have been more than happy to give you a step by step with pictures procedure of the repair but at this point Im not gonna bother cause I get the impression that at some point in your life you just stopped learning and assumed you knew almost everything there was too know about anything.
You say the measurements I posted are useless, that dosent hurt my feelings cause I get why you are assuming they are useless.
I get and in fact agree with the majority of your above posts, I dont know what your background is but it isnt necessarily googling things and coming up with half baked replies in an effort to make your fellow A bodiers think your intelligent, you appear to have a certain degree of hands on knowledge but too what extent I wont even try and guess cause it is a fact that I simply do not care. AKA its none of my business!
Ill end my part in this thread with saying dont assume so much, ( ask questions ) give people the benefit of the doubt sometimes and your never too old to learn.
Have a nice weekend :)
I'm a former Aerospace engineer that started restoring cars in my father's restoration shop when I was like 10. I've been working on cars for over 28 years by that math, mostly as a hobbyist as my old man retired from restoration awhile back. I've straightened chassis's, performed front clip swaps, and cut, clipped and even completely replaced frame rails on concourse level show cars. I've helped to design, and do all of the chassis construction, for Formula SAE cars for competition when I was studying engineering. That's my background. I haven't stopped learning, but I have learned that some of the old-school ways of doing things, like leveling a chassis and dropping plumb bobs and chalk lines, are actually some of the best (and simplest) ways to do things. Absent of course some kind of laser level frame table, but who has one of those?
The beef I have is you're posting numbers you pulled from a 44 year old car that you found in a junkyard, sitting in the dirt, supported on some rims haphazardly placed underneath it, and passing them off as some kind of standard to compare to because you didn't use a tape measure to pull the numbers. You have
no idea the history of the car you measured, it wasn't checked for square, or even leveled. You have no idea if it's chassis measurements are in spec, because you didn't check. Unless of course you checked all that and haven't mentioned that, but you haven't said you did. And yet, you post your measurements like people can use them to check to see if their car is straight, or right, or correct, or whatever. Like if their car matches those numbers they're good to go. Those numbers are meaningless. You can put a floor jack under one corner of these cars and change
all of those numbers. You have no idea if they actually match a car that's been leveled and checked against the factory chassis specs.
If your car matches those numbers and the fenders fit, great, that's awesome. But having those numbers isn't any more "correct" than having a car with proper body panel gaps. If you have a car with the proper body panel gaps and diagonals that are off those measurements by a half inch, it means nothing. That car could be straight, yours might not be. So, what do the numbers mean? Nothing really. You're no further ahead, or more correct, than someone that put a fender on their car, realized it didn't fit right because the gaps were off, and adjusted the inner fender until the gaps were right.
