How many cowls does an AC car have?

Probably size of baseball...

 

That one in the link looks clean. I been told size don't matter..

 

i'd prolly pull the dash to make the job easier...

 

Going to let my buddy look at it, he looked at the pic and thinks he can do something with it, we will see and if he can I will post pics. Still got to check the other side but no water on the passenger side when I poured water in the cowls, just some and not a whole lot on the drivers side, a puddle dripped onto the drivers side floor mat so the bulk of it exited the car.. Its just metal, it will get fixed one way or the other.

 

exactly. metal is just metal, anything can be fixed....just sometimes after im done fixing it i often wonder 'was it worth it?' lol

 

I agree but if we were doing it for worth we would be doing it on different cars! LOL

 

value is in the eyes of the beholder..... because i love my car(s) but sometime's i still question myself lol

 

I figure, if your going to goto the trouble in the first place, why not make is a original as possible. It's not really that bad of a job, to cut the cowl cover out, and replace the rotten piece with something from another car.
Personally, if I didn't do that to my car I'm working on now, it would have driven me nuts.

 

Probably will because this car all the makings of a really nice car and I'm not going to have a tremendous lot in the car.

 

I bought 3 double ended spot weld cutters cheap at Harbor Freight for 15 bucks and I only took the teeth off of 1 cutter so I have 5 cutting surfaces left. Be careful to set the cutter depth so you don't cut too deep past the top cowl surface when removing the welds. Ask me how I know LOL! After that the top cowl just fell off of the car. I cleaned all of the inner cowl rust, made all of my patch pieces & welded them in. I welded in 2 new early Mustang reproduction vent rings, bought from CJ Pony Parts and then applied Eastwood brushable seam sealer on all the patch panel & ring mating points. On a couple of surface un-weldable pin holes, I mixed up some JB Weld and that took care of that. Then I used 2 coats of Rust Bullet Black Shell and all of the little "golf ball" looking surface imperfections disappeared. This stuff fills in those surfaces like you can't believe. I'm also filling in both of my outer grill vents with steel. I don't have to now, with the repairs that were done, but the look is part of what I'm shooting for in appearence of my finished car. I'm just waiting to order another can of Rust Bullet to coat the underside of the outer cowl before I weld it all back together.

My plan was also to try to fix my cowl from inside but I'm really glad I did it this way - I think you will be too

 

blocking that off does not stop the water from getting in. it still comes in through the wiper arm holes and the windshield weep holes...

 

I wasn't going that route anyway, it was just a thought.

 

i just realized that i parted out a '73 Grabber that was the OPPOSITE color combo than your's.... but had the same interior/engine combo (blue bench, 302, but was 3sp manual).

when u get done with it, interested in a '71 possibly? lol