There's been a decade of metal shop classes just on that one car, we can't thank you enough for your patience with teaching us all your tricks and tips on "hand tool" fabrication, another beautiful repair Tony, your piece mill technics have helped me out more than you could imagine, thanks again for all your hard work and willingness to share your experience, till next time I'll be waiting.
Fitzee I have been watching your videos for years and you always amaze me with your methods and your skill. I am in Australia and I know you have a big following here. I am retired and restoring VW Beetles your methods have enabled me to do what I love without having a million dollars worth of equipment. I appreciate every thing you have done for all of us.
I've wanted to fabricate things and repair and build hot rods but was a alcoholic for a long time and choose drinking over my dreams and now almost a year sober. I'm glad to have your videos and many others channels to watch and learn to start doing what I love. Thanks.
There's years and years of experience and you can just tell by how he talks about the gap and lines a real professional this guy, I hope to get half as good to fix my rusty rambler
Again, Thank you for showing just how simple anyone can accomplish metal work if you just look at the task your trying to do. And with a basic tools. With you showing the way to do it. Your GREAT!
Tony, Your gap adjustement method is GREAT ! I wish I had known that when I built my '68 Chevelle. I fell into all the novice traps back then. Great vid !
I've been telling my wife about how good you are and how you teach people who no nothing about wielding ways to get to doing their own projects. So I showed her this video and she was amazed at how you took all those pieces and made that door jamb. Keep the videos coming I'm almost ready to start doing some patch work on my Caddy.
Tony I wish you and TH-cam was around when I was a young fella, I'm 60 now ,got lots of fabricating tools , watching you makes me want to go and buy an old car and have at her , you make it look so easy.
Holy moly...might have been easier to build the whole car from scratch..😅.. nah..seriously im learning stuff and writing this sh!t down..i got a Dodge Diesel im replacing the roof and doors on and this is my schoolin..
Awesome stuff Fitzee! Thanks so much for showing us how you do this this type of repair! Fellow Canuk here in Alberta, I have a 66 Galaxie that needs the Fitzee touch. :) Want to make a trip out here to Alberta sometime? Seriously, watching how you do this I'm gonna try it myself. Cheers!
After you split that metal and began tapping the seam back you could see the gap opening into a uniform shape. Is it just me or is that just cool as hell... You are pretty good at making metal conform to your will. Making it go places it didn't want to go in the first place. You have a unique way of convincing it to do that...
There’s only one guy that I would turn my project over to... Globally, Fitzee #1 globally in panel restoration, hell you should be teaching our throw away generations. H.M.S.
Tony, you've always say that you hope the tips are good, well my son this time! you nailed it out of the park!! Your officially the Master of Tricks and Tips in my Book and I got a feeling a whole lot of fellas will agree with me on this one. cheer's bud.
Tony it's work on panels like this that make you seem like a magician. How you worked the edges and then made the tricking door bottom section up was just genius. Simple, easy, perfection.
Thank you Thank you Thank you. I've not done any of this yet but am about to start on my 1962 c10 and I know your teaching is going to help me so much. Thanks for teaching and sharing your skills. I agree with others, you blow us away with your skills. Keep em coming. Thanks Truck Driver Ray ✝️
Wow, we are early in this video and I see lots of work ahead on this car to get it to Fitzee levels! Luckily it's in good hands.... I'm really here for tips on complex panels though.
Your simplicity rocks. I have been doing this for 40 years and your technique is as good as I have seen. I have taught a few to do rust repair and the 'don't over think' approach is the best advise you can give anyone. I built my push rod blower when I was a younger lad and still use it, there is nothing better. Your channel is inspiring and enjoy every video. Thanks Stevo J
Another fantastic episode. That repair panel for the bottom of the B post was a brilliant example of your method of breaking the task down into small, manageable elements. Thank you so much for that and all the other great tips. BTW I like the new intro, especially the way the hammer blows fall in time to the music, a nice touch. Thank you Tony!
I really appreciate the nice details in your work. Doing it in a simple fashion also. Which allows us to be able to understand and do this in our small garages at home with basic tools. Thank you!!!👍👍👍
you make it look so easy, but its difficult to get the curves all to match. By using the old rusted part as the shape/template you do it so well. Again your skill is masterful.
So very clever. I have never seen or done a repair like this. And panel alignment was impressed upon me more than 50 years ago. I only wish I was able to take my MIG welder back in time. Sure beats brass!
really great tips as always thanks!! i just wanted to share a issue i had with my welder this week, the wire kept burning back and welding it self to the brass fitting , I thought it was the ground, so i cleaned the clamp and it seemed better but not fixed, it turned out to be the wheel was slipping on the wire ! so i just had to put more pressure on that wheel and it works great.
An absolute "MASTER" in the fabrication and welding in some of the most "impossible" areas to repair . Your "simple" approach to a repair encourages one to tackle the challenge straight on. A delight to watch you work "miracles" when no commercially produced repair pieces are available.
Another quality video as always Tony your skills and knowledge experience shine through as always great channel I also love watching the flip side too where viewers can the the many different things that you and your family and friends do when your not in the workshop keep up the amazing work see you in the next one Fitzee ♥️
Thank you Tony! Always satisfying watching you tackle tricky projects and providing informative ways to accomplish difficult tasks. Great info for novices!
Fantastic video, love your work Fitz, reworking old repairs and making them factory again. Never judging only problem solving. I think I’ll buy a hat you legend.
My Wife is Thai. I have learned so much from Thai People, They do everything We do without all the fancy equipment. They don't even use a work bench . 😮
Amazing video, learnt a lot. I'd love to see more of this! However.. Is there a possibility to mute the sound of the grinder and dim the light of the welding? As a viewer, i'm not wearing protection 😁. Thanx!
Your videos are so informative that anyone with patience, enough ocd, and a mechanical/ creative mind can do this. I've built several cars but never have done the body work. Next car I'm going to do the body work also.
Your tips are just bloody fantastic. There has been stuff I’ve seen and thought right this is a parts car. I’ve stripped and scrapped the car. But that was years ago. But now after watching quite a few of your videos. I’m looking for an old wreck to attempt to copy precisely what you’re doing.
Lord Thundering Jesus ! You make it look soooo easy. Great job and thanks for explaining your body work in easy to understand language. What part of the east coast are you from? Cheers
I hope all that crappy welding was a DIY effort....I've done less work that you've shown on this one car and I can do better (but then you're my teacher)
So Fitzee i heard you say you use co2 gas on the mig? Not argon? Its got to be way cheaper? You are a master teacher and fabricator ,so glad i found your channel. Thanks in advance
I know we all had to start somewhere, but My God, the "Hackery" that was done to this car... Thank God, that you are there, to Save this Poor Car... ❤❤❤
The welding on this Fleetline ?????? Never seen anything that bad. The whole car is a piece of junk. Lucky it's in your hands so that you can fix all the mess done by someone else and return it to the owner in so much better condition. It sure is a massive job. The only good thing about this car is the highly instructive videos you are making while fixing the mess.
Another great teaching video. great explanations, one step at a time, making a complex panel. Need to get to the salvage yard to pink up a small piece of eye beam. Thanks for the education.
Great job! But I missed something or you didn't mention. I'm interested about how do you protect from rust the inner side of panels, that you cut and weld? Thanks
I just use a rust paint. Most of what I do is cars that won't be used in winter. If I was to do a winter rig I would have to drill holes and spay oil inside.
You didn't care to carry through the seam on this one? You hav said before that you like to have it original seam 23:05 vs 46:27 I'm talking about the joint seam of the quatrter panel to the rocker panel not the gap seam.
Which is great for me cuz you say it in every video so I don't have to remember or go back to your 3 months and find a video and watch it again Siena house as I watched every video almost I think
There's been a decade of metal shop classes just on that one car, we can't thank you enough for your patience with teaching us all your tricks and tips on "hand tool" fabrication, another beautiful repair Tony, your piece mill technics have helped me out more than you could imagine, thanks again for all your hard work and willingness to share your experience, till next time I'll be waiting.
Fitzee I have been watching your videos for years and you always amaze me with your methods and your skill. I am in Australia and I know you have a big following here. I am retired and restoring VW Beetles your methods have enabled me to do what I love without having a million dollars worth of equipment. I appreciate every thing you have done for all of us.
Yep, big following in oz, replacement panels aren’t as cheap here as in the states so fitzees videos are awesome!
Also watching and learning here in Adelaide. I agree with all of your comments 👍
Tony..You are just amazing.. Your skill at rebuilding those body gaps is simply mind blowing. Thank you for sharing with us.
I've wanted to fabricate things and repair and build hot rods but was a alcoholic for a long time and choose drinking over my dreams and now almost a year sober. I'm glad to have your videos and many others channels to watch and learn to start doing what I love. Thanks.
Your skill consistently BLOWS MY MIND. Thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us.
There's years and years of experience and you can just tell by how he talks about the gap and lines a real professional this guy, I hope to get half as good to fix my rusty rambler
Again, Thank you for showing just how simple anyone can accomplish metal work if you just look at the task your trying to do. And with a basic tools. With you showing the way to do it. Your GREAT!
The knack you have for simplifying things is amazing, Tony! I was overwhelmed just watching 😂
Same mate. I was like " daym !!! 😊
Great channel. Loving the work :)
Tony, Your gap adjustement method is GREAT ! I wish I had known that when I built my '68 Chevelle. I fell into all the novice traps back then. Great vid !
I've been telling my wife about how good you are and how you teach people who no nothing about wielding ways to get to doing their own projects. So I showed her this video and she was amazed at how you took all those pieces and made that door jamb. Keep the videos coming I'm almost ready to start doing some patch work on my Caddy.
You;re a true artist. Great video and impressive work.
Tony I wish you and TH-cam was around when I was a young fella, I'm 60 now ,got lots of fabricating tools , watching you makes me want to go and buy an old car and have at her , you make it look so easy.
75 here, same thoughts. I don’t have anything rusty, except me😊
Holy moly...might have been easier to build the whole car from scratch..😅.. nah..seriously im learning stuff and writing this sh!t down..i got a Dodge Diesel im replacing the roof and doors on and this is my schoolin..
136,000 subscribers! That makes you one of the top fab instructors out there. I just wish I could have had you instructing me like this 40 years ago!
Awesome stuff Fitzee! Thanks so much for showing us how you do this this type of repair!
Fellow Canuk here in Alberta, I have a 66 Galaxie that needs the Fitzee touch. :)
Want to make a trip out here to Alberta sometime?
Seriously, watching how you do this I'm gonna try it myself.
Cheers!
After you split that metal and began tapping the seam back you could see the gap opening into a uniform shape. Is it just me or is that just cool as hell... You are pretty good at making metal conform to your will. Making it go places it didn't want to go in the first place. You have a unique way of convincing it to do that...
Tony, how do you not have nightmares about this car? The previous "fabrication" is horrible!
It’s just the way they did that kind of work years ago - not everyone is a Barris or a Fitzee..!!
The Ruffer it is the more of a challenge. The challenge is what drives me.
What I admire most is how you do it without getting frustrated or disparaging the person who worked on that before you...
You never fail to educate and entertain, Tony. Thanks for the tips!
There’s only one guy that I would turn my project over to... Globally, Fitzee #1 globally in panel restoration, hell you should be teaching our throw away generations. H.M.S.
Tony, you've always say that you hope the tips are good, well my son this time! you nailed it out of the park!! Your officially the Master of Tricks and Tips in my Book and I got a feeling a whole lot of fellas will agree with me on this one. cheer's bud.
Tony it's work on panels like this that make you seem like a magician. How you worked the edges and then made the tricking door bottom section up was just genius. Simple, easy, perfection.
Perfect timing, just about to attack bottom of doors. you make it look so simple yet your work is outstanding.
Thank you Thank you Thank you. I've not done any of this yet but am about to start on my 1962 c10 and I know your teaching is going to help me so much. Thanks for teaching and sharing your skills. I agree with others, you blow us away with your skills. Keep em coming. Thanks Truck Driver Ray ✝️
Fitzzee transitioning top craft into high art by using simple tools not overthinking it. Thank you very much for sharing all this.
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Wow, we are early in this video and I see lots of work ahead on this car to get it to Fitzee levels! Luckily it's in good hands....
I'm really here for tips on complex panels though.
I can't even imagine what it would cost to do all of this!!!
Your simplicity rocks. I have been doing this for 40 years and your technique is as good as I have seen. I have taught a few to do rust repair and the 'don't over think' approach is the best advise you can give anyone. I built my push rod blower when I was a younger lad and still use it, there is nothing better. Your channel is inspiring and enjoy every video. Thanks Stevo J
Another fantastic episode. That repair panel for the bottom of the B post was a brilliant example of your method of breaking the task down into small, manageable elements. Thank you so much for that and all the other great tips. BTW I like the new intro, especially the way the hammer blows fall in time to the music, a nice touch. Thank you Tony!
I really appreciate the nice details in your work. Doing it in a simple fashion also. Which allows us to be able to understand and do this in our small garages at home with basic tools. Thank you!!!👍👍👍
you make it look so easy, but its difficult to get the curves all to match. By using the old rusted part as the shape/template you do it so well. Again your skill is masterful.
The tips were great and you made that transition look like it came from the factory. Your explanations are pure gold.
So very clever. I have never seen or done a repair like this. And panel alignment was impressed upon me more than 50 years ago. I only wish I was able to take my MIG welder back in time. Sure beats brass!
really great tips as always thanks!! i just wanted to share a issue i had with my welder this week, the wire kept burning back and welding it self to the brass fitting , I thought it was the ground, so i cleaned the clamp and it seemed better but not fixed, it turned out to be the wheel was slipping on the wire ! so i just had to put more pressure on that wheel and it works great.
An absolute "MASTER" in the fabrication and welding in some of the most "impossible" areas to repair . Your "simple" approach to a repair encourages one to tackle the challenge straight on. A delight to watch you work "miracles" when no commercially produced repair pieces are available.
Another quality video as always Tony your skills and knowledge experience shine through as always great channel I also love watching the flip side too where viewers can the the many different things that you and your family and friends do when your not in the workshop keep up the amazing work see you in the next one Fitzee ♥️
Thank you Tony! Always satisfying watching you tackle tricky projects and providing informative ways to accomplish difficult tasks. Great info for novices!
Genius! Love rewatching your videos. Reinforcing my knowledge, thanks Tony!!
Great video as normal.
Fantastic video, love your work Fitz, reworking old repairs and making them factory again. Never judging only problem solving. I think I’ll buy a hat you legend.
Phenomenal video as usual Fitzee!!👍👌
Perfect video for Toyota Mr2 MK1 Owners like myself!!😂
The tips were good.
Re-inCARnation.....you've UN-reTIREd....see what i did there? 😉
Mr.Fitzee,I'd love to commend you on be'n "THE METAL MAGICIAN" that you are young man!!!
The way you make these pieces and how you fit em and make em original is outstanding always enjoy watching your videos thumbs up 👍👍👍👍👍
Discovered this channel a few weeks ago and have become addicted. Amazing skills, compulsive watching.
My Wife is Thai. I have learned so much from Thai People, They do everything We do without all the fancy equipment. They don't even use a work bench . 😮
I can’t say what has already been said. TY for sharing your skill!! Another vid that’s going into my save folder for future reference!!!!!!!
Inspiring, thanks. Just starting out so this is really helpful. "Don't overthink it". Music to my ears 👍 Subscribed
So good!!! I learn so much in a short time with you, THANK YOU!!!
I'm really happy you do so much by hand instead of expensive machines I can't afford
Amazing video, learnt a lot. I'd love to see more of this!
However..
Is there a possibility to mute the sound of the grinder and dim the light of the welding?
As a viewer, i'm not wearing protection 😁.
Thanx!
Another excellent video.👍 I always learn alot watching your videos, thanks.
Your videos are so informative that anyone with patience, enough ocd, and a mechanical/ creative mind can do this. I've built several cars but never have done the body work. Next car I'm going to do the body work also.
Whadaya talkin' about Tony? You're a crack! Don't overthink it, just do one step at a time and it's MINT!
Well done, Sir!
Your tips are just bloody fantastic. There has been stuff I’ve seen and thought right this is a parts car. I’ve stripped and scrapped the car. But that was years ago. But now after watching quite a few of your videos. I’m looking for an old wreck to attempt to copy precisely what you’re doing.
Great instruction geared to the weakest link in the chain to surpass fear of trying. DON’T Overthink it…would make a great Fitzee T-shirt
Lord Thundering Jesus !
You make it look soooo easy.
Great job and thanks for explaining your body work in easy to understand language.
What part of the east coast are you from?
Cheers
Enjoyed your video very informative and interesting I have a 66 Mustang coupe that I've had since 1977
I hope all that crappy welding was a DIY effort....I've done less work that you've shown on this one car and I can do better (but then you're my teacher)
So Fitzee i heard you say you use co2 gas on the mig? Not argon? Its got to be way cheaper? You are a master teacher and fabricator ,so glad i found your channel. Thanks in advance
I know we all had to start somewhere, but My God, the "Hackery" that was done to this car... Thank God, that you are there, to Save this Poor Car... ❤❤❤
There’s a Newfoundlander there making us proud that’ll boy
im making a patch in my 95 civic right now and this video just helped me so much thank you for your expertise !! God bless you
The welding on this Fleetline ?????? Never seen anything that bad. The whole car is a piece of junk. Lucky it's in your hands so that you can fix all the mess done by someone else and return it to the owner in so much better condition. It sure is a massive job. The only good thing about this car is the highly instructive videos you are making while fixing the mess.
I love watching your channel. You make the impossible possible
I'm doing the same to wife's impala hinge pillars. Will be stronger than factory with the welds behind as well. Thanks mate great video again.
Someone was really getting carried away with the mig welder on this.... Lmao 😂😂😂
Hi Fitzee just turned in on your channel your work is awesome old school top notch fun watching.
Another great teaching video. great explanations, one step at a time, making a complex panel. Need to get to the salvage yard to pink up a small piece of eye beam. Thanks for the education.
Question: when you weld the edge of the quarter panel.
How do you stop the warping?
Cheers
Amazing you can make a video like this without any swearing at all 😯, Id have a few swear words seeing those old rust repairs🤬
Pretty good tin-knocker. Like your method, but show the welding please. Do you spot weld or how do you control the heat warp?
Great job! But I missed something or you didn't mention. I'm interested about how do you protect from rust the inner side of panels, that you cut and weld?
Thanks
I just use a rust paint. Most of what I do is cars that won't be used in winter. If I was to do a winter rig I would have to drill holes and spay oil inside.
You didn't care to carry through the seam on this one? You hav said before that you like to have it original seam 23:05 vs 46:27 I'm talking about the joint seam of the quatrter panel to the rocker panel not the gap seam.
Sir your work is amazing, thank you for being willing to share and teach us, Vr tw
I am impressed. you are very skilled and I have learned so much . I realize now that any car is salvageable if you have patience and time . thanks
Which is great for me cuz you say it in every video so I don't have to remember or go back to your 3 months and find a video and watch it again Siena house as I watched every video almost I think
It’s a pleasure watching you work, Fitzee.
Fitzee I just subscribed. Do you have a video doing inner and outer rocker repair
Good evening,i just love watching a guy without a million dollars worth of high tec equipment do as good a job if not better then the ones that do.
Master T. U should take your show on the road. I've got some junk that I work on. But I like to watch U.
Wonderful instructional video - Thank You Fitzee
Tony you always prove that necessity is the mother of invention… another great vid🤠👍
tHIS INFO IS PURE gold!! tHANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING YOUR KNOW HOW WITH THE WORLD
My man Tony got the patience of a brain surgeon work looks phenomenal 👍
you make it look so easy but with your years of skill thank you for sharing your knowledge with us
Oh Dr. Frankenstein, either a mad man or genius, LOL
I like the blower i just take a male and female screw them together moves a ton of air and you can easily keep it in your pocket
Hey Tony. Is there a way to flange metal on a car without specialty tools?
super craftmenship in gapping the rear of thhe door learnt a lot just have to put it into practice now thank you.
I have to use German find the right words 😊😊😊😊
mate love all your work mate you explain everything so simple
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Awesome work, amazing grinding skills 👍👍
Always great content tony. And the tips are the best. Thanks
The tips were GOOD as usual! JR in Ontario 😊
Could you show the coat hanger trick?
God flows through this man's eyes and hands
No good asking hopeless people to help you you line it up as soon as you let go it drops