[mpbelair]

My 57 is in my local paint shop-firewall paint and minor body repair. There's a bad spot in trunk wheelwell that looks like a bad or botched repair from who knows when how long ago. I asked him to fix it.

After getting into the nitty-gritty he found black, tar-like, hard as a rock substance or material that was gumming up the grinder. He has never seen this material before (he and employees are in their twentys). They tried plastic and primer and it's slipping right off, no adhesion. So now it's being slowly chipped off to bare. He thinks someone may have tried to put a new 1/2 panel in that didn't fit well, with brazed metal patch and this filler stuff.

Does anyone know what this filler/stuff could be???

 

[Shua57]

Not sure but I just repaired a 57 for a guy that the whole tailpan area was filled with hot tar. It was just poured in to fill all the holes. Took forever to break out in chunks. The 55 Ford i'm working on had tin siding hand bent over the rear quarters and about an inch of bondo over that on one side and tin hand bent and placed over the original and bondoed on the other side. People used whatever they had in the old days. I would remove it and fix it. Got any pics?
Josh

 

[mpbelair]

Not sure but I just repaired a 57 for a guy that the whole tailpan area was filled with hot tar. It was just poured in to fill all the holes. Took forever to break out in chunks. The 55 Ford i'm working on had tin siding hand bent over the rear quarters and about an inch of bondo over that on one side and tin hand bent and placed over the original and bondoed on the other side. People used whatever they had in the old days. I would remove it and fix it. Got any pics?
Josh

No pics right now-the car is with my bodyman. I'm just guessing it may have been hot tar-I mean it's good enough for a roof, right? And yea, it's taking them a lot of time trying to get it off (and costing me more $$$). Does tar become rock-hard? I'm not that familiar with it.

 

[mpbelair]

Update

I guess an older gentleman was in the shop and informed everyone that it was TAR...hadn't seen that in awhile!

 

[Shua57]

It does get hard on the outside but chewy in the middle.....lol.
Josh

 

[mpbelair]

It does get hard on the outside but chewy in the middle.....lol.
Josh

sounds like candy

 

[r66ss]

mpbelair sounds like your gonna hav quite the adventure with your 57
good luck and keep us posted too

 

[mpbelair]

pic of the bad repair

This is the area I was speaking of. Apparently everything that you can see that's not supposed to be there was the tar. "file photo" haven't seen repair yet. Funny that the rest of the car was done pretty nice but this was a glaring 'crap' job. It's like they tried to fill in a mismatching seam?

 

[mpbelair]

need a favor

Could someone click on the above posted picture of my trunk and tell me if the thumbnail opens ok and how large it is? If so, is it too small?

I was told last time I tried a pic it was invalid, although I could see it.

 

[angs1957]

The pic does open not sure how to make it full screen though?

 

[mpbelair]

Thanks angs1957

gotta work on that re-sizing thingamajingee and figure out how to post pics