Deep dent from a Harley Sportster

[CrnCnn]

Lifting a vehicle here is pretty much for looks.

And they look so good.

[SBC]

Sucks about the dent! I did this conversion to my 98 E-250 after i bought it...front and rear 4-link....Full Air Ride Suspension.....38" super swampers.....Thing rocked for offroading!

[JHarris1385]

What in day He**

[SBC]

here's a couple more shots of it!
Dino being a past owner of a 4x4 van can appreciate something like this.

[JHarris1385]

SBC add those so you can click to the enlarged or original pictures. Cool van for sure.

[SBC]

[Dino]

Well done!!! Love the paint job too!!

I thought the same thing Chopper... worst spot it could have happened!!??

I'm actually brainstormin a way to make a sort of spot tool and die to clamp it back into shape. I could sample the proper curve from the other side in fiberglass, then cut a tool and die set, then try clamping it.

It'll get me close, and it won't distress the metal as much as hammer and dolly work. Then I can just leave it until I get time to do the real prep and paint.


Cars... Body work... the smell of bondo AKA polyester resin.
Side note ...
My Dad had a bodyshop when I was a kid. I remember a wall of tools and LOTS of hammers. I asked what they were for many times over. It's funny, but sometimes I do stuff and wonder how the hec I knew how to do that!!! Guess some stuff is just absorbed.

This is me, sanding on some car my Dad was working on, in 1961. I was 1 year 9 ,os old.



My dads is 93, not so much in the here and now, but alive and vital enough. I'm going to visit him and my Mom in the Adirondacks next month.

[Chopper]

Damnit man! You couldn't have chosen a more difficult, less forgiving spot on the car to smack. (ok, the valley around the spare blister, convex-concave transition under the rear window are tough too) Well, you'll get to work on your plastic game A smooth, changing radius like that, on a black surface will not allow even a primer scratch to be hidden. I'd be tempted to hang new metal, since the paint work is gonna be the expensive part of the repair. I've been at this, more decades than I care to admit, and I doubt I'd get a paint match on this Ebony, that I would be willing to panel paint... meaning, now at least the hood (maybe the door) are blend panels. At this point, the metal cost becomes almost incidental. Look---I am a perfectionist/ paint Nazi/ a-hole in my shop, and with my cars. I admit it. I drive everyone around me nuts with it...you won't believe how many "painters" I've blown out of Flagler Collision in the past 5 years. Were that my VX, I'd probably be planning to disassemble it, and do an all over...but I'd be planning it from a county bunk... 'cause I'd have hurt him pretty badly, I'm afraid. Look, you may be cool with a rattle can spray in which case...ignore everything I said. If I can help in any way(paint codes and such) let me know. Wayne