If you have been following the repair on this ‘46 you probably remember how rusty this car was. Below is a picture of the right side lower “A” pillar before the repairs. We had to completely remove this area and start over. Since we didn’t have really anything to go off of or compare to we hand fabricated it the best we could. We used the door and front fender as our template for the repairs.

Here is a picture of what we had to work with.

You can see the metal that we started adding on top of the rocker box. Also notice we have a piece of metal tacked in place to mock the door contour. We installed the door and fender, off and on who knows how many times until we had the metal panels shaped to fit. Sadly these are the only pictures I have of this repair.

The toe boards fitted up and welded to the lower part of the firewall.

The front floor boards and tunnel. Direct Sheet Metal really makes some great products.

The rear floor panels. Everything fit together nice and looked great.