1979 - 1983 AMC Spirits and 1978 - 1983 AMC Concords > Spirit/Concord Projects
AMC Concord Hardtop 1981
juhap:
This happened summer 2020...
A quite nice looking black Concord and a crash....
Brought it to new home like this.
Story begins..
"open the door, please..."
Did not help. Had to cut a window to door and unbolt it.
That sill is about 3" in...
...and here it is 1" too much in.
After I took seats and carpet out, I found these "rust repairs"... Thin sheet metal and corrosion under coat and some adhessive...
Everywhere...all around... :censored:
Windscreen removal... see that new roof line.
This started renovation.
Some damage here, too.
Removed that window frame.
Hornet donated window frame.
After some drilling and cutting. Nice...
Some gap.
Taking door to pieces. Something to save here?
Fenders off.
More rust and some sheet metal taken from washing machine, that white stuff..
oh no...
Oh, sh..t
More Hornet parts...
Test fitted
Original pillar had some issues... so had to open spotwelds and fix it part by part.
Strated to take all apart...
So, is this the final stage? and then scrap yard...
Crap...
and more...
and more.
Started welding.
First job done
Then it was time to use frame machine, car-o-liner came to garage.
The first pull.
..and the second...
and so on...
Done..
New sills...
Inner part, test fitting...
Had to jack floor up like 1".
After cuttin rust away, there was a gap...
Previous builder had cut these beam ends away. Now I can weld it to a new sill.
mmmmm...nice...
More pulling
Repairing rust damages...
Final welding
Some adjusting needed..
Test fitting, again..
Sill needed some inner structure.
Inner structurer here, too..
Almost ready to welding, but not yet...
Testing door... and pull again...
Jack and port-o-power needed...
And this was end of year 2020.... There were too freezing to work untill next spring...
to be continued...
juhap:
After cold winter months and some other projects, it was time to continue.
Tried to get old pillar to new door post, but getting it rigt was not easy...
... so I took another.
there was a bad reparation done sometimes.
So...
Perfect fit.
Looks good...
"new" rear quarter... test fit.
This was all for 2021...
vangremlin:
Thanks for all the pictures. You are very skilled and very patient!
rmick:
Has to be a labor of love to bring this one back from the dead.
juhap:
Here in Finland we have two Concords on the road... One yellow station wagon and one Sundancer (mine)... And if all goes well, this is going to be third. That´s why I´m giving it an other chance...
Finnish AMC importer didn´t sell any AMC after 1975-76... Every car after that, are private imports.
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