how clean is to clean to cut up?

Yup. Start with as good a body as you can find. Fixing rust sucks. I thought the same thing about my 67 FB. My brother actually walked up to it and said, "kind of a shame to cut up such a nice car." It was just a /6 auto, nuthin fancy anyway. Way ahead starting with a nice car!!!!

Making it my way!!!!!!!!!!!!:burnout: