Random Post of the Day ( original post date 2018, March 27 )
1966 Ford LTD Resto-Mod : 052 Body Damage Repair Part 5 - Front Passenger Wing
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I have a replacement wing for the damaged one. Granted it has a few dings and dents of its own to sort out as well.
I sanded off the majority of the paint only to find more hidden damaged under loads of body filler.
One nice thing about this wing is that it came from a radio delete car. There's no antenna hole. For a while I was pondering if I should put the antenna back in front or on the rear wing. Then a friend suggested don't put one on the outside at all. That was brilliant. It cleans up the exterior not having a whip antenna on the outside. It's like my Caprice Classic lurking in the background. It came with no external antenna either. 70's GM's were in the windscreen.
But I could try one of those internal amplified antennas, or if the gain is too low I could install one in the rear window and even integrate it as the rear defroster grid.
I need to work out some of this damage, not to mention fill some holes (trim that the LTD doesn't have) and make holes for trim it does have as well as the engine badging on the side. The replacement wing came from a small block car (no engine badging).
Cheers
