65 Dart Wagon Conversion to a Sedan Delivery

65dartcharger said

Don! What kind of brackets do you use on the inside to prevent the sheet metal to get noicy?
I will turn out great. We just saw the first Crocodile Dundee when she arrived to Australia. I was surprised that I had never recognized it befo that they picked her up in a 1965 Valiant Ute! All of a sudden i watch the film in another perspective.
I couldn't help thinking about your car in delivery style compaing it with a Ute.
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to answer your first question, when I added the B pillar on the driver’s side, I had to remove the roof cross brace since it was connected to the wagon’s original B pillar. I used part of the roof brace as one of the panel side braces. I did not need to cut the driver’s C pillar too much so I used it as the other brace. On the passenger side I will need to fabricate 2 side braces. I will use my sheet metal brake to bend as needed the braces.

I saw that Valiant Ute also in Crocodile Dundee. Funny thing, I went to Darwin Australia for a week each 2 times in 1981 and 1982 and never did saw any old Valiants or Utes!

It looks like when they constructed the Utes, they kept the wagon’s smaller front doors; IMHO they would have looked better with the 2 door sedan doors except they didn’t make 2 door sedans in Australia either. That’s why I went to the sedan B pillars and doors