The 510 Realm

almost forgot Its been 6 years today that I've had this car
weird how time flies like that

trunk panels are all laid out now and just about ready for welding might do some smaller patches in a spot or two, not sure yet need a refill of welding gas before anything happens though If only they were open on the weekend PXL_20240511_173852278.jpg PXL_20240511_210547783.jpg PXL_20240511_2155302...

Working on the trunk floor pulled out some old patches that weren't done right & look like I bead rolled them blindfolded Stamped the new patches using some 3d printed dies that I made PXL_20240429_231736694.jpg had to cut in reliefs to take out some warping PXL_20240501_232911419.jpg This panel...

busy week, got the rocker fully attached finished both end caps grafted two fenders together and rebuilt the passenger side hinges some trimming and grinding left to do here and there, but it's back together I have enough good pins to put together one set of linkages, but the rest are junk anyone ha...

That pinstriping on the side is neat

slow and steady right? rocker is attached to the car now, but still need to do the spot welds on the bottom PXL_20240413_205043810.jpg PXL_20240414_000523038.MP.jpg PXL_20240414_000831628.jpg PXL_20240414_002807269.jpg the next daunting chunk of rust to fix - I recently found these pinholes under th...

got the floor pan mostly wrapped up
there's another few holes I'll need to patch after I pull the engine / trans

starting to get the rocker mocked up to go on

iceman510 wrote: ↑01 Apr 2024 13:21 Is that hinge cover all one piece?

22 separate pieces glued together

took a lot of trial & error, but I printed a replacement hinge cover for my wagon

got a few patches in today & sprayed most of a can of self etch

RONSLYCHUK wrote: ↑29 Mar 2024 08:33 Your wagon looks to be in decent shape. They are getting hard to come by. Keep up the good work!

Compared to some of the other projects I've seen online, I am pretty regularly surprised that this car isn't more rusty

Passenger rear floors needed some help - and I think my welding is slowly getting better PXL_20240129_015755528.MP.jpg PXL_20240203_222040187.jpg PXL_20240204_212648625.jpg Recently I removed the passenger outer rocker PXL_20240215_005412225.jpg and I've slowly been working on the passenger front fl...

Turned the car around to the passenger side, this is where the half finished patches really started to bite me A combo of open, unpainted holes, squirrels storing their dinner, and the heat really didn't do me any favors PXL_20211115_154715980_small.jpg PXL_20231014_212250052.jpg PXL_20231014_230955...

Inner rocker got some help too PXL_20230508_001242756_small.jpg If I were to do it again, I'd probably change a few things, but for my first time doing anything like this I'm pretty happy with the results PXL_20230514_211056290.jpg Driver's door needed some work PXL_20230516_014818278.jpg PXL_202309...

just three weeks shy of two years later, I went to retrieve the car IMG_20211002_180316916_small.jpg more stagnating - changed jobs, got married, house took priority, so it became a shelf for a while, but it was indoors now PXL_20230126_230016686_small.jpg in my spare time I play with 3d printers, a...