[Essex_29]

Gotta stay motivated, sammons.
Finally the rear fenders are done.
I welded a bunch of pinholes, ground and hammered and dollied.
I took the fenders off the car and ground things more, as good as I could, hammered more, then
 painted red primer as a guide coat and block sanded the fenders, hammering from the
inside and the outside, sanded more.
Ooff, it looks so much easier when they do it on youtube.
When I felt I had done what I could, I slip rolled  1/8" by 3/4" flatbar to hold the inside fender
edges tight to the wheel opening, drilled holes for the screws and mounted it all back
to the body.



There's still some red on the fenders, and of course I didn't get it all smooth, but an
undisclosed amount of filler will help, I'm sure.
Now I'm ready to get on with the front fenders.

I took a pic of some left over pieces of old and new fender edges.
The original has a wire, around which the fender lip is rolled. My new ones are just a
1/4" round bar welded to the fender lip. The result looks almost factory.

[TFoch]

Sounds like progress!

[sammons]

Looking good man! It's worth the extra time to be happy with it. Lip bead looks great, i aways used #9 clothes line wire in the same way on my lips after fighting trying to roll the metal around it.

[Essex_29]

Thank you TFoch and sammons, for your positive feedback!
I had a bit of a lazy couple weeks here, turning 60 about then days ago, having a small
coffee and cake party for a few friends, then generally being lazy for a while.

I  got myself dragged to the garage in the last couple weekends, and got a litte
something done.

A friend came with the brilliant idea to hang the front fenders off the front spring towers.
I cut out this oddity from a 3/8" thick plate. Two of  the bolts are through holes, the
third, outermost bolt is welded to the tower.



I made a slim fender mount and put it right over the top of he wheel, since it's least in
the way there, where the wheel sits when it's pointed straight ahead. It's fully welded
at this time, and the whole fender feels fairly sturdy.



The fender was fastened to the new fender brace with a sheet metal screw to keep it
lengthwise in situ, while it was jigged up and the rear end of the fender was cut off
and a new fender to runningboard mount was made from angle iron, bolted the the
runningboard, and tacked to the fender.



I made the part that effectively widens the fender and mounts against the apron today,
it has a flange against the apron and it will be mounted with 1/4" UNC bolts and nuts.
The result is that the fender is moved out from the apron about 1-1/2" compared to stock.

[sammons]

Great idea for the fender hanger and mount👍

Looking good and more progress🙂