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Hey all....

I have recently put the 69 Coronet on the road....

at some point, I will post all the photos of the restoration, but I have developed a problem with my body work...

the pix enclosed show the finished product....and a closeup of the Left 250725082509 C-pillar....before the body work was done, and now after....

you cannot see it in the after pix, because of the light, but there is a small imperfection/crack forming along the rear, and bottom of the seam between the new quarter, and the original roof/c-pillar top....

the paint has not cracked and you cannot feel this with a finger, but you can see the light distort due to it from different angles....

all you body shop guys out there....please tell me this is not going to continue to crack, open up and have to be redone/repainted?

any thoughts, ideas?

thanks,

Mark

Can't really promise anything. It all depends on what product you used and how the surface was prepped.
First coat of filler I usually use is Marglass then go over it with a plastic filler. Also it matters how the filler was
mixed. It could be a bunch of things. Good luck with that but my guess is that if you can see a so called crack
it's going to get worse with the flexing of the body and also heat, humidity, cold and all the other elements.
Good luck! The one product I have NEVER had issues with is Evercoat fillers!!!!

Car looks really nice Mark

I agree with warhawkflight, we use evercoat products in our shop also.
very very little shrinkage over time.
as long as the welding was good your prob looking at some shrinkage of the filler, if the paint has not cracked it may stay put now depending on how long ago the panel was finished.
if its only been during the past year it prob will get worse , if its been 2 or 3 years its prob going to sit as is.
Use of a short strand glass filler over a well cleaned and dressed weld then top coat with a good grade of filler is pretty much a must do unless you can work with lead. if it ever gets bad enough to need a redo blending with a base clear system is pretty easy with the products available .
and yes thats one nice ride.