Ugly but functional body work?

I need to pull out some damage my lemons candidate and could use some suggestionson how to start. I have naive notions of building it nice enough to get a logbook, so no radical sawzall treatment, if I can avoid it.

Car in question is a 95 Civic that took a ride into a barrier on the drivers side, the door still functions and a new one will bolt on. The jamb/stiker is okayish. The panel from the jamb to the rear wheel and under the window is crushed in. It wasn't hard enough to break glass, but there is a tire clearance issue, which is the big concern.

So what is the best way to pull this puppy out?

can you reach it from inside and knock it out - BFH city? Other wise slide hammer - the weld on studs work nicer than screws through the body. It's the reverse BFH. Either way the answer is hammer short of new panel.

Son, that is a Lemons "character line". Leave it.

You don't spackle in the cleavage because the breasts are large, do you?

Sometimes you put a little filler in....

Zomby woof wrote: Sometimes you put a little filler in....

thanks, I made it almost all winter without getting coffee on this fleece pullover.

Push it out from the inside then spray the out side with carpet glue and hang green indoor outdoor carpet on it! I remember seening a large caddy with real grass growing on it as a kid. Hail damaged car i was told so owner spot welded on chicken wire then laid down sod and watered it.. Man that was funny.

I can get to some of it from the inside. It is more than a character line. The tire and body want to occupy the same space at the same time. I was thinking about welding some studs on it and pull it with my truck. Maybe I underestimate myself, but a slide hammer doesn't seem like it would have enough umph for this.

I mean, it was a hard enough hit to make a 95 Civic cost less than $500, if that tells you anything. Of course, it came without an engine.

I may do a before and after shot.

Cut out metal in the way; 'glass in masonite; paint and compete!

Sawzall, then rivet in some street signs.

44Dwarf wrote: Push it out from the inside then spray the out side with carpet glue and hang green indoor outdoor carpet on it! I remember seening a large caddy with real grass growing on it as a kid. Hail damaged car i was told so owner spot welded on chicken wire then laid down sod and watered it.. Man that was funny.

Too bad the grass was not on a Mercury Marquis. It would be the Marquis de Sod

In reply to pilotbraden:

That's straight up genius, sir.

In reply to pilotbraden:

Brilliant. That's a properly painful pun.

I had an '84 Marquis, for which I had a little "de Sade Edition" sticker made up to go under the badge...

bluej wrote:

Zomby woof wrote: Sometimes you put a little filler in....

thanks, I made it almost all winter without getting coffee on this fleece pullover.

Hey if it's circle-track racing you can fill it with lead, depending on which side it's on

44Dwarf wrote: I remember seening a large caddy with real grass growing on it as a kid. Hail damaged car i was told so owner spot welded on chicken wire then laid down sod and watered it.. Man that was funny.

He was ahead of his time, he made the world's first green car!

pilotbraden wrote:

44Dwarf wrote: Push it out from the inside then spray the out side with carpet glue and hang green indoor outdoor carpet on it! I remember seening a large caddy with real grass growing on it as a kid. Hail damaged car i was told so owner spot welded on chicken wire then laid down sod and watered it.. Man that was funny.

Too bad the grass was not on a Mercury Marquis. It would be the Marquis de Sod

http://www.marquisdesod.com/