15 minutes ago, Patcon said:

The cowl panel should not be removable with fenders on. There is a flange on either end with two large screws threaded into the body. Those screws are under the fenders

This Cowel only had screws that were accessable from under the hood then had tabs that were held inplace with some rubber inserts... besides the welded edges to the fender. lol

Edited yesterday at 01:16 AM1 day by Toiletduck34

So, Trying to go on my weak short term memory, How would you service the wiper motor etc? You have to basically remove the fenders?

21 minutes ago, Yarb said:

So, Trying to go on my weak short term memory, How would you service the wiper motor etc? You have to basically remove the fenders?

The wiper motor is under the cowel, i think he has it mixed up that you cant take off the fenders without taking off the cowel. there are 2 large bolts holding on the fender under the cowel.

That is correct

13 hours ago, Toiletduck34 said:

Success! I should be able to salvage the fender and cowel.

Woof. Glad you can salvage that! Yuck.

Man this guy wasnt a good welder. Instead of cleaning up the welds he just added 1/2 inch of bondo to smooth over it. Luckily 70% of the welds didn't even penetrate so they were easy to cut off

Hey! If you remove the screws that indicator light can be removed. Unless the PO glued it on. I get nervous just looking at that picture.

My all-time favourite Bondo Queen was a Ferrari 275 GTB that appeared on the FerrariChat website several years ago. It looked so-o-o-o pretty (and cost the new owner about $1.5 Million at the time to make the pivot from 'just shopping' to 'proud new owner'). Nevertheless, he decided to commission a shop to make it 'even better' (including new paint, of course). Unfortunately, when the shop started to prep the body panels for said new paint job, they discovered evidence of filler in places where it shouldn't have been. Digging deeper (literally), they found that the entire nose was nothing more than Bondo. Up to 1" deep in many places. More exploration (excavation?) found deep pockets of damage that made one think that the car had fallen off the top level of an auto hauler and landed on its roof. The shop was stunned by quality of the bondo slinger's work, calling him an artist.

When we made the transition from horses to autos a century or so ago, the method of transportation may have changed but the same shysters stayed loyal to the cause and moved from 'horse traders' to car retailers without losing a step.

If you need headlight buckets, I have a few.