Does anyone have any pictures or suggestions on restoration work of a badly rusted rear seam ?
One of the cars I have at the moment had recently been repainted ( before I purchased it ) in a big dollar restoration, however rust is re bubbling on the rear seam. It's coming up quite badly and I don't want to continually play around with it.
I was considering cutting away all three layers of the seam ( beaver, boot and body) Mig welding the seam flush after replacing the beaver panel and rewelding a support panel to bolt on the rear bumper.
Rear seams have a bad habit of continually rusting and I don't want to repair it every 5 years or so.
Has anyone done a similar restoration and what type of products did you use to ensure the problem was fixed for good ?

Thanks
Dave

Since no one has answered as yet
I did hear of someone who migged in a 50 mm strip of metal on the inside of the rear seam. Overlapped the seam by quite a few millimetres on either side. Then cut out the seam entirely and welded in two fabricated strips to recreate the seam.

He left the inside 50 mm strip to increase the integrity of the seam.

Some pics Morphias posted:





Excellent job by a skilled tradesman in my opinion. Can't have been cheap.

The thread is here http://www.ausmini.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=9174

I have done a little seam reconstruction recently, but not on a curve like that. Hit my www for pics.

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Thanks Mike, I appreciate that.
I had a look the other day and my front bumper has a similar modification in a small area with a metal strip. It was a really neat job and it gave me the idea to take away the rear seam completely. I like the de seamed look in other cars, but in my case I want to keep the rear bumper on. I thought it was a pretty common problem and a nice clean fix with a Mig welder and grinder.
The work I have on the front doesn't have any metal welded on the inside only a flush welded strip, like a right hand channel the length of the (valance ? ) It does look really nice and clean and was probably done by a good panel beater.
I might just get a few quotes from some local guy's to see if they can do something similar.

Thanks for the pictures Zizzle, I'll have a read up on the article.