Welding Roof Skin on a 1969 Dodge Dart MUSCLE CARS & HOT RODS episode 59

In this episode I weld the roof skin on the 1969 Dodge Dart project.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Automotive
• welding
• panel
• replacement
• rust
• repair
• vinyl
• top
• damage
• Muscle
• Cars
• and
• Hot
• Rods
• jeff
• laClair
• Photofinish
• tucson
• custom
• fabrication

[smhorse]

Hi, is this MIG, TIG or gas welding?

[jamesfreddys]

@smhorse MIG.

[MoParguytilidie]

im going to ask a stupid question and i hope i get an answer here goes:

1- is it hard to remove a vinyl top?

2-how do you do it?

3-after buffing out scratches and dings on the metal underneath, can it be painted to match the body color?

4-ive wokred on more modern day cars than classics, so im still learning

thanx.

[jamesfreddys]

it's not hard to remove a vinyl top from a car but it is going to take a little more than buffing out scratches. dings and painting. There are holes in the sheet metal for the clips that hold the vinyl top molding and many of the roofs on the vinyl top cars aren't as nice as your going to want it so yeah it's not hard but there's some work involved in turning a vinyl top car into one without I'm doing it on my car.

[robineggb]

we will be watching, very interesting.

[jamesfreddys]

thanks, Dave.

[vcval]

@MoParguytilidie many bodys on the productionline with questionable roof's were written in chalk v10 = for vinyl roof , re qusetionable , tool marks , filler or just a customer order

[vcval]

@vcval , on the darts it is lead but on the australian "chrysler by chrysler" it is like stiff play doh , sorry my mistake just wandering what your thoughts are on cutting a patch panel to fit in where the factory join is to smooth it off , over kill ?

[shotgunfetus]

Thanks for the vids I am replacing a roof skin on a 73 challenger do you plug weld the skin to the underframing and then weld the drip wells in the skin Im lost thanks

[dunn98632]

i watched the vid and i wanted to say very proffesional job you seem extremely experience in this and unlike other vid we actually learn something then i see you ansewered a person vinyl top question profeesionally and nicely i just wanted to say good job

[MoParguytilidie]

ok doesnt sound bad, just a lot of work and time and im willing to spend that :-)

do you have a video of what youre doing with that top??? ill sub so i can stay updated.

[fxrjohnny]

Hey Jeff, great job. Just wondering do you do any lead work at all ?