Back to welding     Forward to redesigning back of the car (2) 15th of September 2009 - my garage The back of the car is redesigned. 17th of September 2009 - my garage The inner fender was straightened to get more width at the boot. 28th of September 2009 - my garage At the driver's side, the inner fender was rusted along the edge. Because of that, this area had to be renewed. 29th of September 2009 - my garage I cut off small plates, formed them with slight hammer blowes and conneceted them by welding. 29th of September 2009 - my garage 30th of September 2009 - my garage I formed the seams with the help of two welded square pipes, a 17mm wrench respectively a 14mm nut. Surprisingly, those tools were not distroyed and can still be used. The red dots besides the metal plate are red color - I did not hammer my fingers... 2nd of Oktober 2009 - my garage Next time I removed the bottom plate of the boot, .... 3rd of Oktober 2009 - my garage ...adjusted the new metal sheet at the chassis... 3rd of Oktober 2009 - my garage ...and welded. 7th of Oktober 2009 - my garage The bodywork was connected with the chassis once more and the inner footwell plate was cloned. It took me two hours of work to make the two halfes fit. 7th of Oktober 2009 - my garage It took one more hour to weld it. The four holes are necessary to inject cavity grease. 7th of Oktober 2009 - my garage At the evening I had a closer look at the back of my car, because the modifications of this part will be done next time... 15th of Oktober 2009 - my garage With square bar steel, two double chevrons were welded... 16th of Oktober 2009 - my garage ...which were used to fix the shape of the new back. 16th of Oktober 2009 - my garage 19th of Oktober 2009 - my garage Next step was to cover the bars with the help of metal plates. 21st of Oktober 2009 - my garage 22nd of Oktober 2009 - my garage The passenger's side is covered next: The "poor man's folding machine" is used to form a double chevron. 22nd of Oktober 2009 - my garage The curve is done by hand. I used both hands, of course, but I used one grabber to handle the camera at this picture. The bar clamps are used as levers, to work with more effort. 22nd of Oktober 2009 - my garage The cutting lines are outlined at the car. 22nd of Oktober 2009 - my garage Cut off and pierced, the metal plate is ready for welding. 23rd of Oktober 2009 - my garage Bending and marking at the body, cutting and piercing. 23rd of Oktober 2009 - my garage Welded at the passenger's side, it starts looking like a hatchback. 24th of Oktober 2009 - my garage Today I did a lot of patchwork. Here you can see the bottom edge of the rear window at the dirver's side. "La Le Lu" has obviously not been painted with anti-corrosive paint. 24th of Oktober 2009 - my garage Welded from the inside and cut at the lower edge... 24th of Oktober 2009 - my garage ...and bent. Like this I attached some pices of metal. Furthermore I grinded several weld points. 24th of Oktober 2009 - my garage Time to show you one of my little helpers, I got from Ferdi's "Men-tools-reservoir". This electric metal shears is much better than the jigsaw I used before. It cuts faster, more quietly and the edges are excellent - you can't harm yourself. 02nd of November 2009 - my garage The rear fenders are adjusted. 02nd of November 2009 - my garage After adjusting, cleaning was the following step. Again I spent endless hours to remove the old underbody "protection" and all the dirt of the four fenders. In addition to that I had to remove the whole paint of one fender, because it had been recoated in a very bad way by a previous owner. At the car body I found the date of birth (the Orga number). Number 2 hatched at sunday the 21st of April in 1985. "Sunday driver" is no defamation when sitting at the steering wheel of this car... 02nd of November 2009 - my garage Beneath the dirt I could find onca again rust... 02nd of November 2009 - my garage ...and so some fresh metal sheets had to be welded. Buying used fenders of good condition would have saved many hours of work, but the journey is part of the reward. Back to welding     Forward to redesigning back of the car (2)