She's LUMP! Restore or Part/Scrap? FABO Help!

Popdart said

Wow . . . coming along . . . . now you knew that rust was hiding more work . . lol . . . that's normal! Sorry it was there, how's the other side? I hope for you that it is surface rust only. Nice little DeWalt shear, have been thinking about getting one myself. I have the manual type of shear, gets a little rough on the hands!

You've made some great progress on a car that you had once considered on scrapping. You saved one! Curious, before you "kitty haired" the lower fender, did you fill in the welds or is that needed? Rog

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OH! I forgot to mention...
You can get those sheers at HF or air operated ones cheaper than that dewalt set. Again I was under informed when I bought those sheers but sense loosing my job, I use those things at least every month or so! Mostly from when I bought that used welder!
You have to be carefull with those. Now I only use them to cut patches from flat. They can warp metal if you aint careful. I now use a metal cutting wheel on my grider (DEATH TRAP) and it slices through sheet on the car faster than hot knife through butter, but again heat can be an issue. There is some learning curve on technique!:oops:
Well, I'm out dude. Keep it safe, Lump is calling. On to the other side today and we are thinking vinyl top removal for tomorrow. I thought of a little different removal technique that we used on Fern. Instead of razor around edges like before with removal of glass trim too, I'm thinking (for a change and sense I've been here before) of razor a big + sign in middle of roof, then pulling and rolling up from center out ending at trim with a vinyl log in both hands, then abrumpt assertive "TUG" at end pulling vinyl from under trim.
No trim removal, no gasket removal, no trip clip replacement, unless damaged from age or me! Another "GUTS VS. BRAINS" problem on the future horizon of Lump and me.:glasses7: