I’ve still had enough of doing the truck roof for now, so decided it was time to make some space in the roof of the garage for the front end. After pulling down the rear of the truck and putting it all back up again in a different place I had enough space to get it all up there apart from the hood which was too big. That’s in the shed for now so it’s on with the wings and front end metal. After looking at it all for a bit I decided I was going to make a new core support and chop out what was there but I’ll make a start on the wings first.

There were a few creases in the drivers side one, and the front edge had a bad fold in it.Apart from that it was in pretty good condition. I welded some washers to the creases and slide hammered them out a bit as I couldn’t get behind to pop them back out. I then spent a good few hours trying to sort out the flat area of the wing but it was stretched and needed shrinking. After a lot of time messing about, I came to the conclusion that I can’t shrink metal to save my life. I’d had enough, so drew a rough square with a marker and chopped it out with the grinder. I cut out a quick replacement and set about welding it in and ended up with a result in a lot less time than I’d spent trying to shrink it. I didn’t want to warp it trying to seam it, so it needs some more work next weekend to join all the tacks together.