widebody '96 wagon

Paul.Aspen · Post by **Paul.Aspen** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 12:24 am

I have a long, long road still ahead but this is what I have so far. It's only primered right now.

evolutionmovement · Post by **evolutionmovement** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 1:14 am

Are you going to cut/weld/extend the taillights to the new contours?

Redlined · Post by **Redlined** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 1:17 am

Your giving me ideas! Stop it!

P.s. Dude... Awesome!

Grayguy · Post by **Grayguy** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 4:19 am

Definitely different

Paul.Aspen · Post by **Paul.Aspen** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 6:46 am

evolutionmovement wrote:Are you going to cut/weld/extend the taillights to the new contours?

No, I don't think so. I never really considered that actually. Sooo, maybe!

Redlined wrote:Your giving me ideas! Stop it!

P.s. Dude... Awesome!

Thanks a lot! I wasn't sure how to do this but I heard of someone using spay foam to make the shape so I tried it and it worked well. I used a knife to get the hardened foam to the shape I wanted then sanded it smooth. I then added a few layers of fiberglass to make it rigid.

Then I smoothed most of the bump out with body filler.

And now that it's primed I can see all the high spots and low spot much easier.

it's been a fun project. I still have no idea what I am going to do with the rear bumper

evolutionmovement · Post by **evolutionmovement** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 2:32 pm

If you make brackets to support the bumper, you can use parts of a spare bumper to extend the sides out to meet the fenders. The plastic on the 1st generation cars is polypropylene and I'd bet yours is the same, which is a pretty easy plastic to weld. I don't know what would be easier, though: cutting the center and adding a middle, which would require re-drilling all the mounting holes, or cutting the sides off and extending the bumper there. This is something I wanted to do for a little while with my wagon before I decided not to for the sake of other projects.

DevC · Post by **DevC** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 9:52 pm

Love it

Danny-G · Post by **Danny-G** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 7:35 am

Heres a couple I took at the BigNW meet.

So far, I love it! Much props to you for making a totally one off '96 Brighton wagon, yeah I noticed that haha.

cj91legss · Post by **cj91legss** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 6:24 pm

that thing is awesome, i took a couple pics of it when i was at BNWM

Paul.Aspen · Post by **Paul.Aspen** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 4:16 pm

Thank you all so very much the much needed encouragement. Hopefully I'll get something done about the rear bumper today. Thanks for the pics Danny!

cj91legss · Post by **cj91legss** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 4:30 pm

The pics i shot of it, i thought i had more...

Paul.Aspen · Post by **Paul.Aspen** » Fri Aug 05, 2011 4:24 am

Hello everyone. Thanks for the pics and constant encouragement! here are a few I took tonight. The hella sloppy rear "bumper" is simply to fill in the gap until I find a suitable replacement. But I think it's starting to take shape!

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