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Hi i tought i would introduce myself i'd been in this forum for many years, but after a computer breakdown, I have to create a new account, my name is Magnus and lives in southern Sweden, had a 59 Coronet for nineteen years, it came to Sweden from Richmond California in 1997 and got a quick fix with a lot of bondo of the first owner here in Sweden, now I try to get style on the body work, se if i can post som pictures on my work |
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Location: Williams California | Looking forward to seeing your photos, Magnus!! |
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Location: Eringsboda/Blekinge/Sweden | Se if i can post some photos :-)
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Location: Eringsboda/Blekinge/Sweden | It had a lot of bondo
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Location: North Australia | Excellent skills!! My son has a question regarding your tattoo. What is the missing word?
My question is, what is the goal with your car? (original or modified). Please post more pictures and information on your 59 2 door hard top as you progress.
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Location: Eringsboda/Blekinge/Sweden | Thanks Steve :-) No missing words on the tattoo ;-) My goal with the car is almost stock (Exner was right from the beginning) Just lowering it little and a Larry Watson style paint job in early 60's style, have a lot of photos to post, i'm only halfways with the rust repair, but i'm almost done with the right side of the car, left is much worse ! (excuses for my bad English, i'm living next to the North Pole (Sweden) :-) |
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Location: Eringsboda/Blekinge/Sweden | big m - 2017-06-13 11:22 AM
Looking forward to seeing your photos, Magnus!! Thanks John |
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Location: Eringsboda/Blekinge/Sweden | More photos rocker bodymounts and floor, rustfree California car they says i don't think so, but hopefully it will be someday.
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Location: Eringsboda/Blekinge/Sweden | Bought a floor pan and seat brackets from Stefan Eriksson in Åland, very good quality, saved me a lot of fabrication, all other pieces i hade to made by myself, not much to by for FL Mopars.
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Location: So. Cal | Great work! I agree that Stephan's panels are really nice. They have saved me a lot of work too. Completely rust free, unrestored 2dr cars don't exist anymore. Metal skills are required now and you definitely have it in hand. Nice job. |
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Location: Eringsboda/Blekinge/Sweden | Thank you |
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Location: Eringsboda/Blekinge/Sweden | If anybody has a nice heater control, i'm interested my buttons have turn to dust
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Location: Connecticut | Your metal fabrication skills are fabulous ! After all that work your yellow-and-black car deserves a first class paint job. Ron |
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Location: Hayward, Calif | Nice body work!!! Had to do the same thing to Wife's 59 Dodge. So I can appreciate all you are going thru. Jerry |
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Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island | I'm impressed, very good craftsmanship. Keep up the good work and keep us posted! |
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Location: ZH, Switzerland | Astonishing excellent craftmanship on your project. The repaired areas you documented are looking wonderful and perfect. I wish good luck for your project and please keep us informed about your nice 1959 Dodge Coronet. Happy Restoring! Dieter |
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Thanks everyone for all kind words :-) Tonight I started working on myDodge again, had a break for a couple of months, had a lot to do on other cars mostly on our daily drivers and i changed job and had a lot to do with it, but now it felt good to start with It again :-) |
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Have a bit left to do on the floor, thinking about lathing a press tool for the bodymount, so i can fabricate the last pice for the floor
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Also found a hole in the firewall so i had to do some cutting and welding.
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Found a very bad repair in the right door, a pity that people can not do it right from the start This is not going to be fun to fix, but it may be a later concern.
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Location: Eringsboda/Blekinge/Sweden | My wife's 58 New Yorker has looked angry at me all night, it's waiting for new brakes
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Location: So. Cal | If you end up making a good tool to press that body mount in the floor, make 2 of them and I will pay you for it, and pay to ship it. I need one too. The reliefs that come in the floor panels are not deep enough.
I would definitely wait to fix that door. Since your car has pretty good paint on it, there is no sense in cutting through that door until the car is ready for a re-paint. |
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Location: Frederick, MD | I'm in awe. I wish I had a fraction of your ability to work with metal. |
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Location: Eringsboda/Blekinge/Sweden | 71charger_fan - 2017-06-18 9:05 AM
I'm in awe. I wish I had a fraction of your ability to work with metal.
It's not that difficult, had too many bad cars, and had to learn the hard way, metal is cheap and good cars is not here in Sweden |
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Location: Eringsboda/Blekinge/Sweden | Has not got so much done today, but an hour was it, my wife's children came in and helped for a while, cut out the last bad bit of the floor, luckily, so was the body mount solid, leaving the old floorpiece to my friend's workshop so he can manufacture a stamping die next week
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Location: Eringsboda/Blekinge/Sweden | Powerflite - 2017-06-17 9:29 PM
If you end up making a good tool to press that body mount in the floor, make 2 of them and I will pay you for it, and pay to ship it. I need one too. The reliefs that come in the floor panels are not deep enough.
I would definitely wait to fix that door. Since your car has pretty good paint on it, there is no sense in cutting through that door until the car is ready for a re-paint. Left the old floor piece to my friend today, so he would start producing a tool, if it works good maybe we can do another one, the paintwork is really bad on it, painted least three times and many blisters in it, so it must be bare metal |
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Location: So. Cal | Thanks Magnus. Let me know how it goes.
It's always fun to have help |
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Location: Eringsboda/Blekinge/Sweden | Many months ago since i did anything to my Dodge, but now I have started to work at it again, waited a long time for that my friend would make a stamping die for the bodymount , but it nothing happened so I had to fabricate it myself at my work, managed to fabricate the last piece for the floor, so now is the right side done, now im goint to put some lead on the rear fender and rocker, and put some epoxy primer on all the bare steel before I start on the left side of the car.
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| I assume you were fighting the cold also? Rust and Forward looks are a nasty long fight...
Im really glad my wheel lips weren't shot, that doesn't look fun. |
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Location: Eringsboda/Blekinge/Sweden | Winter has not been to bad this year, but my work has keep me way to busy |
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Location: Eringsboda/Blekinge/Sweden | Also bougt a new daily driver, i'ts a Forwardlooker too :-)
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Location: So. Cal | Not quite...it's a '62, although I believe the '62 C-bodies and A-bodies should be included. The '62 B-bodies are better suited to the '62-'65 group & the drive-train changed quite a bit in '62 so that's some good reasons for the cutoff. But the A-bodies didn't change much until '63 came along. Looks like a really clean Valiant. I will be converting the slant in my '61 Lancer to fuel injection in the next year or two to improve it's fuel consumption and drive-ability.
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Location: tailFinland | Awesome work Magnus! |
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Location: Minor Hill, TN | POR 15 will stop that car cancer nice work though |
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Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island | Great goin' Magnus - hurry up so that we can meet out on the Swedish summer roads |
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Location: tailFinland | 1961plymouthfury - 2018-03-24 8:54 AM
POR 15 will stop that car cancer nice work though :cool:
We do not use those in our cluture up here in Nordic Steph
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Location: Milwaukee Wisconsin | Coronet 59 - 2017-06-14 2:21 PM If anybody has a nice heater control, i'm interested my buttons have turn to dust :bleh: Is there someone out there that ever refurbished these heater buttons . mine fell apart too. |
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Location: Nasco , SWEDEN | Awesome work Magnus. I guess it`s Charlie Feathers who kept you in a good spirit. ( saw a record sleeve in one of your Pictures).
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=charlie+feathers Hope to see finished car soon. Regards Morgan |
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