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Buick is in my garage at the moment, and it will stay here for some time. First i had to do some room for it, so i made new, bigger tent. Then i put the engine and trans back into the frame, also front seat is back on the old floor. My daughter likes it :)



And off to work... Original seams were flooded with lead, so I needed to get rid of it first. My torch decided to retire, so i had to use simple heat gun, but it proved to be efficient. On the photo can be seen rear panel to rear fender seam.



Rear fender to rear taillight panel joining seam, lead is in place here.



Melt and pick...



Now on to drilling. Sometimes I need to drill through, because there are few layers of steel.



Over the rear light.



And side of the rear light.



And separated pieces.



Here You can see the seam between rear fender and door sill, almost everything has rusted away, but it has to be made new some day, so i managed to save as much as i could for reference.



Joining with B pillar.



Joining with inner fender along the trunk opening.



Separated.



In front.



Ready.





Now it's time for rear panel under the rear window, which is one piece with rear shelf. It should be easier to remove other fender, because that part goes over the rear fenders. So much welds to drill...



Inside.



Other side.



View from above, there are rear hinge mounts welded from below here.



Lead again, and seam below it.



Removed.





From beneath it looks rather healthy, but it has some holes though.



You can see here my new tent, now i have a lot of room to work and store stuff (garage is full at the moment...).