ive got an 85 datsun 720 dual cab 4wd i want to restore, but currently nowhere to work on it. it frustrating as f*&k yeah. ill be reffering back to these kind of vids when i do though for sure
The biggest lesson I've learned from you is keep it single, break the repairs down in to stages, I've looked at cars in the past and decided they are too complicated to repair, now I'm jumping in with both feet, so glad I found your channel, Thanks Tony
I'm 70 years old now and when was a young man in the 60's and 70's I had no problem finding a good Body man who could and would repair your car's bumps and bends, and they were good at it. But you had to hunt around and talk to his customers to find out if he was a true body man or a mud man and what they had to say about his quality. People like yourself are really hard to find in major cities throughout Canada nowadays. Luckily Through word of mouth and making a new friend I was able to get a real good body man to help me on this last mustang. I really enjoy your show because for many years I've been struggling to do minor repairs with so-so results. Keep up this show and God Bless you and your's in these troubled times. Dave M
After the air force , went to school for auto mechanics and body and paint work , never got to work it so just doing mainly my own stuff , after 30 yrs, learning good ways AND remembering stuff I had forgotten !! 😅😮
Found that out when redoing a set of western wheels with my son , sandblasting was the ticket to get down into the edges and tight spots and really clean surfaces to add a bit of stranded fiberglass to touch up the rust areas. End job was worth every bit of blasting, winter rims look perfect years later, used 2 part epoxy paint with hi grade primer.
I learned years ago that sandblasting rusty floors in the vehicle gets sand everywhere. The next time I did one, I taped off the dash, underside of the dash included, essentially sealing the dash from the rest of the interior, and then sandblasted the floors. If you don't seal off the dash with tape and sheet plastic, the sand will get into every single component in the dash.
@@robj2704 why not just hold an empty vacuume near the end of the sand blaster? To suck in the sand and re use it another time? I made a jig similar to what dry wall guys use to drill out pot light holes in a finished ceiling, it keeps dust and dirt inside a small vessel that gets sucked out by a vaccume....
I added this video to my playlist and just got around to watching it. You sir are a amazing fabricator. I learned more from your video than I did in school. Simple instructions, reasons behind why you did it the way you did, why you shouldn't do it in a template...it all made perfect since. I have a 75 malibu that I inherited when my twin brother passed 5 years ago. I've done a ls swap but it's just been sitting for 3 years because no one makes patch panels that I need for the car. Recently purchased a 74 bucket seat parts car with plans on stripping it for the metal and interior. After watching a few of your videos I've decided to just make my own panels. You're awesome
Excellent step-by-step guide on fabricating! You made easy to follow and this is the first video that didn’t leave me with unanswered questions at the end! I’m glad I found this video!! I’ll be following!👀
Thid guy genious. Scares the fuck out of mr when he cuts the original pieces out of these cars. AND ITS NOT EVEN MY CAR. CRAZY AND INSANE. IS WHAT MOST P EOOLE CALL GENIISES. THIS MAN IS TULL Y A GENIOUS. PHENOMOMINAL SKILLS AND BIG BALLS. I WONDER IF HE DRINKS BEER OR WHISKEY. HES SOUBDS IRISH SCOTTICH AND FRENCH. MIXED. LOVE THIS MAN I THINK HR SPENDS 18 TO 20 HOURS IN THE SHOP. 7 DAYS A WEEK. HE GIVES NEW MEANING. TO THE PHRASE. METAL HEAD. HEAVY METAL. IR LIGHT. O DONT THINK HES A 🎸 ROCKER. NIGHTFENCER GATEKEEPER. W O W WOW WOW
I always hated to work on places like this, never dreamed that the by using old rusted panels as a template it would be so much easier, My way of thinking was to cut out that rust and get rid of it not realizing how handy that rusted part was. Thanks for the video.
Gary ... I did a project car a few years ago and only a few days into it I realized that cardboard templates only go so far because they don't hold a compound curve. I basically started doing exactly the same as this video, although it was trial and error at the beginning. By the time I was done with the first door sill and rocker, I was starting to feel better with using the rusty parts as my template... or should I say in places where I still had the rusty part. Yeah, there were a few areas where I had to wing it because the OEM part just didn't exist any more so had to measure the other side of the car and flip the part over to make the final fit.
I finally figured out why it's Fitzee's Fab..... "I fits(fitz) it to one side, then I fits(fitz) it to the other side"......LOL! Awe inspiring work and you are a good teacher. I like how you don't cut your explanations short. Love the channel, learning lots!!
This was a great eye opener and lesson on how to do rust repair around windows. I have a bunch of this to do on a 55 Chevy and was worried on how to accomplish it. You have shown me the light! Thanks
The mix of Irish and American accents is amazing, also why hasn't youtube bothered to show me these vids before? This is literally exactly the kind of content I've been trying to watch.
Everything you do completely relates to projects I have. I just need time! I know when I am ready to start doing work I have the best reference manual right here!! Thank you!
I have tried using cardboard templates to cut my steel replacement pieces and it works fairly well. This process skips that and removes the error that transferring the shape to cardboard and then your final steel pieces introduces. I think you have to be careful though when you are laying the new steel sections on top of the original shape because your replacement piece can become slightly larger. I also like how tacking in the new sections and then bending them to fit into the correct shape works. Appreciate the time it takes to make these videos, glad to see you are getting some great recognition. You certainly have mine.
I just shared this to my Olds Cutlass Facebook group. This is a common repair needed for our cars. I hope they come check you out! Thanks for the continuous videos, they are great!
Love your chanel! With your training I rebuilt all four corners of my 1987 toyota extra cab windsheild. I am very please at how it turned out. Much thanks Fitze!
Only just found this channel and looking forward to watching back through the older videos, there's so many little tricks here which you only figure out after doing this stuff for years - thanks for passing on your knowledge Fitzee!
You're an awesome teacher! Thanks for helping old is poor diy guys. I'm too foolish to think I can't do something but with your instructions it sure does faster and easier!
It took me a few videos to really appreciate the brilliance of Fitzee’s approach to solving these very complex problems in a relatively simple way - and that is the mark of a mastermind of metal. These videos are a priceless resource.
I so enjoy watching you working learning from your experiences you bring my confidence level up just knowing that it can simply be done all it takes is common sense and willing to try and pay attention to your videos
Thank you Tony, you are so thorough with your explanation and it’s a joy to watch, listen and learn. Passing on the knowledge is the key for all of us to try and help others 😊
I,m a metalworking newcomer working on a Nissan Figaro with rusting problems which I'm sorting by following your techniques exactly .Watching your videos makes me feel like i've had a traditional apprenticeship.Keep up the brilliant work
Again, you lay out all the ins, out and angles PLUS! It was practically therapeutic seeing you go step by step with the journey skill set! I never tire of watching brother!
You nailed the technique with this complex repair; all the slight curves and weird angles are reproduced, spot-on! No other way to do this PROPERLY, but your way. Thank you for clearly explaining all this, Fitzee!!
Fitzee - with your simple home made tools and a couple of basic air/electrical tools AND YOUR BASIC APPROACHES to repairing complex shapes, you are a master craftsman. Learnt a lot from your videos and always looking forward to the next challenge! Keep up the excellent teaching and “how to fix that” type videos!!
Thanks Fitzee! I learn a lot of techniques from your videos. I’m not as afraid to do metal repairs as I was before. I like how you simplify things. Keep up the good work!
Experience is often a great teacher and so are you. Straight forward, step by step and explaining why along the way makes understanding simpler. Thanks for sharing.
Iv watched so many videos, I started on my 05 blazer for practice, watched afew of yours and boom it turned out great, and made so much more sense! Not a spec of rust now. I've got my 72 gmc, 65 parisienne, and many more to work on! Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge and experience. Great camera angles and superior teaching experience for both new body man and old!
Hello Fitzee !! Your biggest fan , Russell here , out in Edmonton . You are a TRUE craftsman ,& you got my full respect ..... NO TEMPLATES , I LOVE IT ! You make the so called technical experts look like amateurs . Thank you so much for all your experience & your videos 😊👍
Thank you for your Master Class level presentation that any layman can follow along and understand. It gives me encouragement that yes I can do this too! I am working on a '68 Chevy II Nova SS restoration and while in pretty amazing shape, it has a couple of rusted spots like this. You are saving me from much trouble! Thank you.
I'm in Australia and I too have a couple of old school cars, one I'm trying to restore and yes, I must admit that you have inspired me to keep going and to try things I have never done before, I'm attempting to restore a Ford XC Panel van with it's usual rust issues, as it was sitting in a paddock for many years, trying to keep it alive as they are slowly disappearing from our roads. Again thank you for your help and giving me the courage to tackle this big job one rust repair at a time. Thanks mate, from Australia 🦘
I've made panels like this in the past when doing custom panels for taillights that aren't sposed to be there and I ended up with more then 7 panels welded together just to get the right compound shape. Works really well.
I've watched several of your presentations and find you interesting to watch as you figure out the angles and compound curves. You are an artist and a talented fabricator. I am 71 years old and having grown up watching my father do similar restoration work with simple handmade tools , You remind me of him and like him amaze me. It blew me away when you said you don't have a torch at 47:38 to take out the brass. The repurposed screw driver, the T dolly and the I beam anvil. You work with what you have and you getter done. One thing that a saw that made me cringe was during the on bench fabrication You was grinding your welds down and the grinding waste (sparks) was directly hitting the front fender of the car behind you. A cover or screen would protect the pain from these hot grinder rash. I know You are working in a small space but some protection is needed. I say this because Years ago my younger brother took his x19 to a body shop to have some special paint work done and when he picked it up it had specs burned into the clear coat on the drivers door and front fender. The body man had tried to buff it out but it was almost clear into the base metal and the body guy said that he did not know what happened. My brother took it to another shop and the body man there said that he has seen this before and said that they was probably working on another vehicle next to his in the shop and did not cover his car. Just an observation. Your work and processes are worth the subscribe to me . Thank you for sharing your craft. Nolan
Another great tutorial Fitzy, as we see on completion all metal fitz like factory, you are a true craftsman, well done 100%. John from Cairns Australia 👍👍
Fitzee You’re the Bomb man!!! I love how detailed you are and easy going you are with the directions. These 70s B bodies were so swoopy and had lots of angles. It’s simply brilliant. I have to some work like this on a 63 Bonneville. I’ve got my work cut out for me. I’m a novice.
I've watched your videos for several months now, and this is the one that finally penetrated my noggin. You did an excellent job explaining and showing how you put these patch panels together. I see the light!
Like every time I goes near the rust spots on the car... ‘there’s a lot of work in gettin to the work.’ So true, the prep is always harder than the actual work itself. You are an artist my friend
i wish i would have learn from you years ago i really enjoy doing body work and have learn lots from watching your channel. thanks a lot for the videos.
Great tips and beautiful job. I just discovered your videos and I find them very interesting to watch. I always thought this was the best way to do this rather than forming a piece off the vehicle, going back and forth from car to workbench, and getting frustrated. This just make more sense.
We did the same thing to my 66 Buick Wildcat last summer and I wish we had seen this first. The way we did it was much harder. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Great job Fitzee. I’ve got a similar job to do on my MGB GT, the corner of the front windshield and the A Post as well as where the Fender bolts through it. Probably end up made up with about 4 or 5 pieces in the end. It’s definitely the way to go making it up with separate pieces and a lot of the fabrication off the car. Cheers
Once again, very well done and jammed full of great info & tips! You do a nice job editing too. I've got a few different size T-dollies in the drawer - first time ever seeing one used "upside-down" like you did. Very effective and a great tip. Thanks Fitzee!
Another Great Job.......this Fella is a Real Teacher on this stuff. Anyboby wanting to learn this body repairing NEED's to watch and learn from this guy
I love your work. I have a whole new way of looking at things because of watching you. I would have given this way too much thought and ruined it thinking I needed thousands of dollars worth of tools and having to learn how to use them. Thank you for sharing this. I know you haven't done this yet and I don't know if you would. I would love to see what a piece looks like filled, blocked, and primed. I don't know if you go that far. Thanks for everything. Please don't stop!
I have to say I have learned so much from you. you are old school use tools that most people who like to work with metal would have or could have so talented love to watch you work your magic Thanks for showing me how to do these things.
Hi Fitzee , I like your videos and do similar repairs as a hobby myself, one trick I use for getting panel shapes is a piece of cardboard template - much easier and quicker cutting a cardboard cardboard template to shape with scissors and then transfer onto your steel piece. Keep up the awesome videos man 👍👍
I have this exact same problem on my 1974 Oldsmobile Delta 88 with only 54,000 miles. They don't make window channel for it. This is a great video, probably one of the most useful videos I've ever seen! I wanted to find a way to fix mine without removing the rear window. I also had rust in the fender well lip that I needed to replace, and I was lucky enough to find a used fender that was cut off of a rust free car. I cut out the old fender lip, the I cut a section out of it that was still solid. I then flipped it upside down and hammered & bent it into the shape of the window channel. Then I used a curved section of the fender to make the top piece to replace the rusted section of the top of the fender. It worked great! I'll install it the same way you did, but I'll have a welding blanket over the glass. Thanks for the great video!
Well done it's great to see the relaxed approach to your work with such good results. Thank you. I've an old ute which I've been quoted $1000 to fix the rust in the windscreen surround. You've given me the confidence to do it myself. Cheers
i've been watching your videos for a while and I find them very informative and they work amazingly. I've used some of your techniques and they work great. Hope you keep making them.
Fantastic Fitzee! This has been so helpful, it’s simple and complicated all at the same time, your right it’s so professional looking. now I need the practice on the ol ranchero, thanks again
Best advice I've ever put into practice.... 1964 vw type 3 rear window, both lower quarters done plus mid section (pretty much the same as this video) all in 21 gauge to match original...... cut and butt technique is simply genius to, smallest gap ever to butt weld. Fitzee, genius level fabricator, top work and a great way of explaining things 👍👍👍👍
Another nice job buddy. Turned out well. Even though i do this sort of thing myself i find it soothing to watch in this crazy time we are living in with our governments nonsense.
A master craftsman- Thanks for taking the time to share your skills. People like you are a dying breed in a world of throw it away and get a new one. Thanks Again!
one of the most difficult body repair situations made easy ..or at least easier than it appears. You approach is spot on and makes the observers say.....I could do that.. Thx Fitzee
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This guy is helping me fix all the rust in my VL commodore here in Australia. What a legend, its like sitting through a free apprenticeship 👌
Same got me doing my Xb from this video
ive got an 85 datsun 720 dual cab 4wd i want to restore, but currently nowhere to work on it. it frustrating as f*&k yeah. ill be reffering back to these kind of vids when i do though for sure
85 ford transit, fr window, rear wheel arches and drivers floor. Its great to have a good teacher
Correction my friend. This is a free apprenticeship. Fitzee is pure genius
Also in Oz, sorting car projects myself thanks to You Fitzee! Magic! Metal 🎩
I learned more from this video than I did in 4 months at the local tech school. No substitute for experience. Great work.
This channel is a gem
MICHELLE OBAMA IS A MAN 🎅🏿🎅🏿🎅🏿
I agree 1000%
@@jg2730 I'd let her do me good
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I swear you're like the metal working Bob Ross. Thank you so much for your time in sharing your knowledge and skill.
I've watched all his videos and honestly his techniques are awesome, no one else gives this kind of advice 10/10
I agree a great video, very well presented and professional finish.
it's good work you do .but the music is awful
It doesn't matter how you did it it's the result that counts.
Again, the "master" makes it look like even I could do it, after a dozen or so tries. Awesome job, as usual, Tony.
The biggest lesson I've learned from you is keep it single, break the repairs down in to stages, I've looked at cars in the past and decided they are too complicated to repair, now I'm jumping in with both feet, so glad I found your channel, Thanks Tony
Another day in Fitzee's classroom, 55 minutes well spent. Thank you.
What, was it 55 min?! Felt like 20.. :)
I'm 70 years old now and when was a young man in the 60's and 70's I had no problem finding a good Body man who could and would repair your car's bumps and bends, and they were good at it. But you had to hunt around and talk to his customers to find out if he was a true body man or a mud man and what they had to say about his quality. People like yourself are really hard to find in major cities throughout Canada nowadays. Luckily Through word of mouth and making a new friend I was able to get a real good body man to help me on this last mustang. I really enjoy your show because for many years I've been struggling to do minor repairs with so-so results. Keep up this show and God Bless you and your's in these troubled times. Dave M
I did this work for 37 yrs and retired 12 years ago, and now I see his technic and see how it's really done. Damn It. LOL
Beautiful work sir 💪
After the air force , went to school for auto mechanics and body and paint work , never got to work it so just doing mainly my own stuff , after 30 yrs, learning good ways AND remembering stuff I had forgotten !! 😅😮
You're right, sandblasting is no fun but clean rust free steel is so much more satisfying to work with.
Found that out when redoing a set of western wheels with my son , sandblasting was the ticket to get down into the edges and tight spots and really clean surfaces to add a bit of stranded fiberglass to touch up the rust areas. End job was worth every bit of blasting, winter rims look perfect years later, used 2 part epoxy paint with hi grade primer.
I learned years ago that sandblasting rusty floors in the vehicle gets sand everywhere. The next time I did one, I taped off the dash, underside of the dash included, essentially sealing the dash from the rest of the interior, and then sandblasted the floors. If you don't seal off the dash with tape and sheet plastic, the sand will get into every single component in the dash.
@@robj2704 why not just hold an empty vacuume near the end of the sand blaster? To suck in the sand and re use it another time? I made a jig similar to what dry wall guys use to drill out pot light holes in a finished ceiling, it keeps dust and dirt inside a small vessel that gets sucked out by a vaccume....
I added this video to my playlist and just got around to watching it. You sir are a amazing fabricator. I learned more from your video than I did in school. Simple instructions, reasons behind why you did it the way you did, why you shouldn't do it in a template...it all made perfect since. I have a 75 malibu that I inherited when my twin brother passed 5 years ago. I've done a ls swap but it's just been sitting for 3 years because no one makes patch panels that I need for the car. Recently purchased a 74 bucket seat parts car with plans on stripping it for the metal and interior. After watching a few of your videos I've decided to just make my own panels. You're awesome
Another masterpiece by a true artist. Thank you very much for the shared knowledge.
Excellent step-by-step guide on fabricating! You made easy to follow and this is the first video that didn’t leave me with unanswered questions at the end! I’m glad I found this video!! I’ll be following!👀
Thid guy genious. Scares the fuck out of mr when he cuts the original pieces out of these cars. AND ITS NOT EVEN MY CAR. CRAZY AND INSANE. IS WHAT MOST P EOOLE CALL GENIISES. THIS MAN IS TULL Y A GENIOUS. PHENOMOMINAL SKILLS AND BIG BALLS. I WONDER IF HE DRINKS BEER OR WHISKEY. HES SOUBDS IRISH SCOTTICH AND FRENCH. MIXED. LOVE THIS MAN I THINK HR SPENDS 18 TO 20 HOURS IN THE SHOP. 7 DAYS A WEEK. HE GIVES NEW MEANING. TO THE PHRASE. METAL HEAD. HEAVY METAL. IR LIGHT. O DONT THINK HES A 🎸 ROCKER. NIGHTFENCER GATEKEEPER. W O W WOW WOW
FRANK,
THIS MAN IS ALL THAT AND A BAG OF CHIPS!!
HIGHLY SKILLED!
I always hated to work on places like this, never dreamed that the by using old rusted panels as a template it would be so much easier, My way of thinking was to cut out that rust and get rid of it not realizing how handy that rusted part was. Thanks for the video.
Gary ... I did a project car a few years ago and only a few days into it I realized that cardboard templates only go so far because they don't hold a compound curve. I basically started doing exactly the same as this video, although it was trial and error at the beginning. By the time I was done with the first door sill and rocker, I was starting to feel better with using the rusty parts as my template... or should I say in places where I still had the rusty part. Yeah, there were a few areas where I had to wing it because the OEM part just didn't exist any more so had to measure the other side of the car and flip the part over to make the final fit.
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Fitzee's university of rust repair, level 7, nice work as always.
I finally figured out why it's Fitzee's Fab..... "I fits(fitz) it to one side, then I fits(fitz) it to the other side"......LOL! Awe inspiring work and you are a good teacher. I like how you don't cut your explanations short. Love the channel, learning lots!!
Fitzee, you know you're helping a lot of people with classic cars and trucks that cannot find replacement panels. You are a legend! Thank You so much!
Love your skills and explanations.
"I always find it a lot faster and a lot quicker" made me smile too,
Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
"cuts and butts" too.
This was a great eye opener and lesson on how to do rust repair around windows. I have a bunch of this to do on a 55 Chevy and was worried on how to accomplish it. You have shown me the light! Thanks
The mix of Irish and American accents is amazing, also why hasn't youtube bothered to show me these vids before? This is literally exactly the kind of content I've been trying to watch.
Yeah accent is amazing, never heard it like this before
It's a genuine Newfoundland accent.
Everything you do completely relates to projects I have. I just need time! I know when I am ready to start doing work I have the best reference manual right here!! Thank you!
I had never considered shaping my patch around the existing steel before cutting it out. That tip alone will improve my work hugely.
I have tried using cardboard templates to cut my steel replacement pieces and it works fairly well. This process skips that and removes the error that transferring the shape to cardboard and then your final steel pieces introduces. I think you have to be careful though when you are laying the new steel sections on top of the original shape because your replacement piece can become slightly larger. I also like how tacking in the new sections and then bending them to fit into the correct shape works. Appreciate the time it takes to make these videos, glad to see you are getting some great recognition. You certainly have mine.
i'm impressed! finally someone using an angle grinder with the guard still on it!
I just shared this to my Olds Cutlass Facebook group. This is a common repair needed for our cars. I hope they come check you out! Thanks for the continuous videos, they are great!
Which Facebook group? I have a 76
@@importsstillsuck 1968 to 1972 Cutlass group.
@@ChadWilliamsFixesAll ah ok I'm in the colonnade groups
as they say "not all heros wear capes"
or welding gloves!!!!
Love your chanel!
With your training I rebuilt all four corners of my 1987 toyota extra cab windsheild. I am very please at how it turned out.
Much thanks Fitze!
Only just found this channel and looking forward to watching back through the older videos, there's so many little tricks here which you only figure out after doing this stuff for years - thanks for passing on your knowledge Fitzee!
love how this was done and explained so the average guy at home trying to fix his car can understand and you showed every step ,good job
You're an awesome teacher! Thanks for helping old is poor diy guys. I'm too foolish to think I can't do something but with your instructions it sure does faster and easier!
I'm amazed at your work every time. Keep em' coming!
It took me a few videos to really appreciate the brilliance of Fitzee’s approach to solving these very complex problems in a relatively simple way - and that is the mark of a mastermind of metal. These videos are a priceless resource.
You never cease to amaze me with the quality of the finished repair v's the basic tools used Fitzee, superb.
I so enjoy watching you working learning from your experiences you bring my confidence level up just knowing that it can simply be done all it takes is common sense and willing to try and pay attention to your videos
Thank you Tony, you are so thorough with your explanation and it’s a joy to watch, listen and learn. Passing on the knowledge is the key for all of us to try and help others 😊
I,m a metalworking newcomer working on a Nissan Figaro with rusting problems which I'm sorting by following your techniques exactly .Watching your videos makes me feel like i've had a traditional apprenticeship.Keep up the brilliant work
Again, you lay out all the ins, out and angles PLUS! It was practically therapeutic seeing you go step by step with the journey skill set! I never tire of watching brother!
You nailed the technique with this complex repair; all the slight curves and weird angles are reproduced, spot-on! No other way to do this PROPERLY, but your way. Thank you for clearly explaining all this, Fitzee!!
Fitzee - with your simple home made tools and a couple of basic air/electrical tools AND YOUR BASIC APPROACHES to repairing complex shapes, you are a master craftsman. Learnt a lot from your videos and always looking forward to the next challenge! Keep up the excellent teaching and “how to fix that” type videos!!
Professor, you have astounded me yet again. Fantastic technique and execution!
Thanks Fitzee! I learn a lot of techniques from your videos. I’m not as afraid to do metal repairs as I was before. I like how you simplify things. Keep up the good work!
My two best Scratch Awls are ground down from two old phillips screw drivers that finally wore out. Agree with you. Recycling to the max. :-)
I really enjoy your repair processes. You make a difficult repair area look achievable. Thanks for sharing your skills with us.
Experience is often a great teacher and so are you. Straight forward, step by step and explaining why along the way makes understanding simpler. Thanks for sharing.
Really enjoy your videos. It's refreshing to see someone showing you don't have to have fancy equipment to get excellent results.
Iv watched so many videos, I started on my 05 blazer for practice, watched afew of yours and boom it turned out great, and made so much more sense! Not a spec of rust now. I've got my 72 gmc, 65 parisienne, and many more to work on! Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge and experience. Great camera angles and superior teaching experience for both new body man and old!
You made it look so easy. You explain it so well, thank you for shearing your years of experience
You have been truly blessed with metalworking skills that are second to no one. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!!!
Hello Fitzee !! Your biggest fan , Russell here , out in Edmonton . You are a TRUE craftsman ,& you got my full respect ..... NO TEMPLATES , I LOVE IT ! You make the so called technical experts look like amateurs . Thank you so much for all your experience & your videos 😊👍
Fitz, This was like a master class. thanks you so much for making these videos.
Thank you for your Master Class level presentation that any layman can follow along and understand. It gives me encouragement that yes I can do this too! I am working on a '68 Chevy II Nova SS restoration and while in pretty amazing shape, it has a couple of rusted spots like this. You are saving me from much trouble! Thank you.
Thank you for explaining the use of the different tools: grinder, flap discs, cutting wheel, clecos; what you can use for what purposes.
I'm speechless. What a craftsman! Fantastic job!
I'm in Australia and I too have a couple of old school cars, one I'm trying to restore and yes, I must admit that you have inspired me to keep going and to try things I have never done before, I'm attempting to restore a Ford XC Panel van with it's usual rust issues, as it was sitting in a paddock for many years, trying to keep it alive as they are slowly disappearing from our roads. Again thank you for your help and giving me the courage to tackle this big job one rust repair at a time. Thanks mate, from Australia 🦘
I've made panels like this in the past when doing custom panels for taillights that aren't sposed to be there and I ended up with more then 7 panels welded together just to get the right compound shape. Works really well.
Another phenomenal video!!!
So methodical and so well explained!
An absolute gem of a video!
Thank you so much for passing on your knowledge Sir!
Litteraly blow my mind every video I watch!
Such amazing work!
Great teacher!
And you always use tools that most guys have on hand, thank you so much!
I've watched several of your presentations and find you interesting to watch as you figure out the angles and compound curves. You are an artist and a talented fabricator. I am 71 years old and having grown up watching my father do similar restoration work with simple handmade tools , You remind me of him and like him amaze me. It blew me away when you said you don't have a torch at 47:38 to take out the brass. The repurposed screw driver, the T dolly and the I beam anvil. You work with what you have and you getter done. One thing that a saw that made me cringe was during the on bench fabrication You was grinding your welds down and the grinding waste (sparks) was directly hitting the front fender of the car behind you. A cover or screen would protect the pain from these hot grinder rash. I know You are working in a small space but some protection is needed. I say this because Years ago my younger brother took his x19 to a body shop to have some special paint work done and when he picked it up it had specs burned into the clear coat on the drivers door and front fender. The body man had tried to buff it out but it was almost clear into the base metal and the body guy said that he did not know what happened. My brother took it to another shop and the body man there said that he has seen this before and said that they was probably working on another vehicle next to his in the shop and did not cover his car. Just an observation. Your work and processes are worth the subscribe to me . Thank you for sharing your craft. Nolan
Another great tutorial Fitzy, as we see on completion all metal fitz like factory, you are a true craftsman, well done 100%.
John from Cairns Australia 👍👍
Thanks Fitzee for teaching us a real craft! You have helped me do work on my car that I didn’t think I could actually do! Your the best!
Fitzee You’re the Bomb man!!! I love how detailed you are and easy going you are with the directions. These 70s B bodies were so swoopy and had lots of angles. It’s simply brilliant. I have to some work like this on a 63 Bonneville. I’ve got my work cut out for me. I’m a novice.
Very good job. You would never know it. As, every time I watch you I always learn some thing.Thank you Fitzee. Ronnie.
33:33 "A simple shape by no means." That's an understatement!
I've watched your videos for several months now, and this is the one that finally penetrated my noggin. You did an excellent job explaining and showing how you put these patch panels together. I see the light!
Like every time I goes near the rust spots on the car... ‘there’s a lot of work in gettin to the work.’
So true, the prep is always harder than the actual work itself. You are an artist my friend
i wish i would have learn from you years ago i really enjoy doing body work and have learn lots from watching your channel. thanks a lot for the videos.
Master Class is back in session...... thanks for the advanced lesson. One small step at a time 👍👍😎👍😎
Great tips and beautiful job. I just discovered your videos and I find them very interesting to watch. I always thought this was the best way to do this rather than forming a piece off the vehicle, going back and forth from car to workbench, and getting frustrated. This just make more sense.
We did the same thing to my 66 Buick Wildcat last summer and I wish we had seen this first. The way we did it was much harder. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Great job Fitzee. I’ve got a similar job to do on my MGB GT, the corner of the front windshield and the A Post as well as where the Fender bolts through it. Probably end up made up with about 4 or 5 pieces in the end. It’s definitely the way to go making it up with separate pieces and a lot of the fabrication off the car. Cheers
Cool car. Good luck.
Once again, very well done and jammed full of great info & tips! You do a nice job editing too. I've got a few different size T-dollies in the drawer - first time ever seeing one used "upside-down" like you did. Very effective and a great tip. Thanks Fitzee!
Another Great Job.......this Fella is a Real Teacher on this stuff. Anyboby wanting to learn this body repairing NEED's to watch and learn from this guy
Absolute fantastic watching you work. Thx for making the effort to pass your knowledge on.
You're the first person on TH-cam that I've heard use "the livin' be-jesus" lol. Another great video. Keep it up
Good ol' Irish cursin' ftw... maybe he might if really pushed slide in a begorrah and a few fecks :P
i hollered at that ..
@@dodgydruid Fitzee, and his accent, are from Newfoundland, Canada.
I love your work. I have a whole new way of looking at things because of watching you. I would have given this way too much thought and ruined it thinking I needed thousands of dollars worth of tools and having to learn how to use them. Thank you for sharing this. I know you haven't done this yet and I don't know if you would. I would love to see what a piece looks like filled, blocked, and primed. I don't know if you go that far. Thanks for everything. Please don't stop!
I'll be doing that at some point on my toyota project.
I have to say I have learned so much from you. you are old school use tools that most people who like to work with metal would have or could have so talented love to watch you work your magic Thanks for showing me how to do these things.
I can’t tell you how long I’ve been looking for these kinds of videos.... YEARS!
That´s the video I was waiting for too! Thank you! Now I can proceed ....
Hi Fitzee , I like your videos and do similar repairs as a hobby myself, one trick I use for getting panel shapes is a piece of cardboard template - much easier and quicker cutting a cardboard cardboard template to shape with scissors and then transfer onto your steel piece.
Keep up the awesome videos man 👍👍
I have this exact same problem on my 1974 Oldsmobile Delta 88 with only 54,000 miles. They don't make window channel for it. This is a great video, probably one of the most useful videos I've ever seen!
I wanted to find a way to fix mine without removing the rear window. I also had rust in the fender well lip that I needed to replace, and I was lucky enough to find a used fender that was cut off of a rust free car. I cut out the old fender lip, the I cut a section out of it that was still solid. I then flipped it upside down and hammered & bent it into the shape of the window channel. Then I used a curved section of the fender to make the top piece to replace the rusted section of the top of the fender. It worked great! I'll install it the same way you did, but I'll have a welding blanket over the glass. Thanks for the great video!
Thank you for keeping this art alive and sharing. I love your 3 plane technique. I plan to use your technique at work now. Keep the videos coming.
I'd have to say that t-doll he's probably your most valuable tool from what I've seen that and the piece of I beam
Nothing better than a Video from Fritz at Friday afternoon :)
Snap! My Friday afternoon was spent the same way!
Well done it's great to see the relaxed approach to your work with such good results. Thank you. I've an old ute which I've been quoted $1000 to fix the rust in the windscreen surround. You've given me the confidence to do it myself. Cheers
It is allways nice to watch somebody who knows what he´s doing.
When you find yourself continually saying out loud "Wow, that's clever" you know you're watching a true craftsman.
Do they call you Fitzee because of your last name, or because you "Fitz" metal together?!
Simply amazing results with this 3 piece method that you are using. I've gained so much new info from you on this Christmas day that I need a nap.
i've been watching your videos for a while and I find them very informative and they work amazingly. I've used some of your techniques and they work great. Hope you keep making them.
Fantastic Fitzee! This has been so helpful, it’s simple and complicated all at the same time, your right it’s so professional looking. now I need the practice on the ol ranchero, thanks again
No substitute for experience. That was a tough piece to recreate i'm thinkin'.
Just bought my 1st project and the advice here is invaluable.
Best advice I've ever put into practice.... 1964 vw type 3 rear window, both lower quarters done plus mid section (pretty much the same as this video) all in 21 gauge to match original...... cut and butt technique is simply genius to, smallest gap ever to butt weld. Fitzee, genius level fabricator, top work and a great way of explaining things 👍👍👍👍
Another nice job buddy. Turned out well. Even though i do this sort of thing myself i find it soothing to watch in this crazy time we are living in with our governments nonsense.
that piece is deceptively complex. your three-piece solution looks like the easiest way to get this done.
A master craftsman- Thanks for taking the time to share your skills. People like you are a dying breed in a world of throw it away and get a new one. Thanks Again!
one of the most difficult body repair situations made easy ..or at least easier than it appears. You approach is spot on and makes the observers say.....I could do that.. Thx Fitzee
A true artist. You are always an inspiration to me! Thanks again Fitzee...
Another great video right on time to help me fix around window on rust bucket 65 Chevy 2. Lots of brass on it too. Thanks so much for the teaching.
I'am 77 years old been doing this a long time but I did learn some things watching your You Tube THANKS ! JIM
This is beautiful... a craftsman at work is an honor to observe... cheers from Canada