| Driving to the Latte stand one sunny Saturday morning for my caffeine fix, I stopped for a light. Next thing I knew-BANG! This blind old bat who should be checked out before being allowed to drive a wheelchair slams into the back of my baby. I didn't have the brakes on, or the damage would have been way worse. |
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| The rear panel
caved in, and the bumper
cracked at the bend. She was driving some late model Buick or something, with a low, rounded plastic nose. Good thing for my car. The impact came in below the trunk lid line. Large cracks in the panel hinted at deep mud underneath. |
On the table at my buds body shop. It turned out, the whole rear panel was one solid slab of multi-layered Bondo. The car had apparently been hammered several times. Once the mud was removed, the panel was was a wavy, work hardened shapeless sheet. |
| Once again, Ross at Sport Imports came to my rescue. He provided a clean, straight, never-been-hammered rear panel. This was expertly spliced in by my bud Mike at Phils body Shop in Seattle. The bumper was repaired, straightened and rechromed at one of the very few remaining chrome shops here in Seattle. |
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| The new panel installed. It was yellow, as the original. The splice seam is where the bare metal ends and the center panel begins. |
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