'72 Scamp-not really a "restoration"

Thanks for the kind words, I'm proud to serve, Sir and glad to know I've motivated you to work your A body!

I got the box out and proceeded to clean out the cowls. If you read all the way through the thread, you may recall I got the car from my Dad back around '07. The car sat for the better part of a decade in his driveway uncovered amidst ash, pecan, and pine trees. Needless to say, there was 20 year old dried out remnants of decayed needles, leaves and dirt. There's only a couple small rust holes around the cowl, but they're one the stovepipe portion, not anywhere that would cause a leak (surprisingly enough). I guess that means the wet carpet after rain is from the windshield gasket.

Anyway, those are finally cleaned after eating some dirt and sneezing up a couple days worth of black and brown mud boogers. As mentioned I already pulled the box out. I just picked up my new heater core from AZ this afternoon, and while I'm thinking about it, the replacement is aluminum instead of brass, and more than noticeably narrower. As long as it doesn't pop, I really couldn't care less. A few hours after my last post, I found a store on eBay (Detroit Muscle Technologies) that had my restore kit-$65 plus a set of clips, and it should be here around Tuesday. I've had a couple thoughts about having the a/c cabinet glass beaded along with all the inside parts to keep them from further rot or at the very least POR the rusty parts before putting it back together.

Anyway, here's a couple pix of what's currently going on. The pile of leaves is about half of what I dumped out of the box, and the a/c portion had some lingering in there too. If that's any indication, something tells me that thing ought to kick out some serious air when I get it all installed.

The bottom picture of the dash is the test fit after enough trimming to fit it and drill holes for the fasteners. I'm pretty pleased with the product (thanks CashA10!). It's filled with AutoMeter Phantoms, and I just gotta wire it all up. I'm strongly thinking about getting the Jeg's wiring kit just so it's all color coded and I can attach actual connectors instead of just connecting it all together. I know I have to take a chunk out of the dash brace to attach the speedo cable, but that's nothin to knock out. Probably the worst part will be extending the wire harness for the wiper switch since it's moved from one side of the dash to the other and that's not even bad.