Big ugly body work.

Well it was as bad as I had thought, and maybe even a little worse. The body line going along the right rear quarter panel was trashed. The body work that was there was rather pitiful and the line was almost nonexistent. I decided to but a reproduction rear quarter panel and patch the entire quarter. Well after buying a USA made replacement panel I was disappointed to say the least. The marker light hole was not punched and the body lines were no where near as “crisp” as the original panel. I was lucky in that I had saved a rear quarter panel from a coupe that I had bought and parted out. I surgically removed enough of the donor part and the damaged portion of the Cobra’s quarter panel. The work went much better than I had even thought it would. It took me jut a little while to make the seam disappear with filler but the over all job went much better than I could have ever dreamed.

Really nice fenders seem to be made of "unobtainuim" at least in the northeast corner of the US. I searched for some time to find the 2 fenders that eventually used. The one was in very nice shape. The other needed to have 2 patches into it to make it decent and usable. You have to do what you have to do. This entire project was done on a budget and the budget didn’t include buying and shipping super nice fenders from all about the country.