MIG welding gas, that is!

Keven and I worked most of the weekend on my car.  We are about 70% done with making the driver’s side rear wheel well opening larger.  It is turning out to be a bit more work than we initially anticipated, and much of it is because we were cutting out and welding back on stuff that didn’t need to be cut out in the first place.  But, so far it is looking good!  We test fitted the slicks under the new panel and there is a definite improvement in the amount of space in front of the tire.

The "before" shot. See how the panel in front of the tire was chopped off by the previous owner?
Close up of the hack job - not very much room!
Keven taped up the section of the panel to cut out.
Keven cutting the existing quarter panel.
Some more cutting!
Drillig out the spot welds - there were a lot of them.
Now there's a nice big hole in the side of the car.
This is me! Yes, I'm actually doing work other than taking pictures. I'm cutting the new panel.
A quick test fit to see how it looks.
We thought we needed to cut a section of the well out. Wrong.
Keven - stop cutting! You'll just end up putting it back on later!
Cutting out some more stuff.
Now there is a nice big hole in the well that we didn't need to cut out.
Keven spot welded the new skin on, and I mounted the tire back on.
We lowered the car back to the ground to see how everything works out.
Check out the massive amount of room in front of the tire now!
We welded the piece we cut out back on and hammered out it out to give us 2 inches more room.
Another shot of the body work.
We're getting close to the end - and we ran out of MIG welding gas.
This is how the car looks now - not quite finished!

At about 2 pm on Sunday we ran out of gas for the MIG welder, and that was that.  Since we couldn’t work on the car any more until we get more gas, we decided to spend the rest of the day looking at Keven’s Ramcharger problem.  We even made a fun little video of that.