Outlaw912

At this point I have found so many problems (rust) it looks like my order for pressed sheet metal will be to replace every thing on the bottom of the car and a lot more. The next step is to clean the inside of the car out (no more rubber coating under the paint and no more rust) this way i can see all the seams and lips on the sheet metal so i can replace entire panels and make it appear to have never been changed to begin with. For this I chose a local media blasting company (Premier Dustless Blasting) who came to my house set up a tent in the driveway and blasted the inside of the car with a mixture of glass and water so there is no dust cloud covering my house and my neighbors homes. Difficulties they ran into; the undercoating inside the car, under the car and in the wheel wells proved to be a resilient opponent but time and lots of glass proved to overcome, hard to reach places on the car inside the rear fenders and under the car (because I did not make a rotisserie the underside ...

After getting the car home and having some time to inspect the body it was obvious to me a complete tare down was needed all the floors would be replaced and rust removed and more panels repaired. To start I set out to remove every thing from the car; all suspension, the doors, the hood, the trunk, the fenders, any hardware, cables, any thing and every thing I could. After removing all the suspension and stripping out all the bushings and bearings.  I started by welding together a dolly for the shell to rest on, this was just a simple cut and weld dolly i threw together on the driveway without any plans. After spotting together a base on casters I positioned it under the car to measure and cut the upright sections of the dolly. I saw a few pictures online so i decided on the mounting locations and made some adapters to bolt to the car that i could welt to. Once done, I had a box of suspension components and my car stripped and on a little rolling cart that made it 100x more ea...