It has been a very long time coming, but I've finally reached the end of that long narrow winding road to restoration...
First off lets take a look at what I had to start with....
When I bought this poor baby in Spring of 2017 I din't know hardly anything about old cars. I had done a few salvage title bodywork type jobs on wrecked newer cars and just assumed I could handle an older car no problem...boy was I in for a surprise. The car was a basket case. Basically no interior. Nothing was bolted down good and tight, all the wiring was spaghetti rats nest, Brakes didn't work, tranny didn't really work, cooling system was iffy at best, gas tank leaked badly, and the motor had a blown head gasket. Pretty much every single mechanical problem you could have with a car, this car had. The body was not in horrible shape tho, which is basically what she was bought for. It needed a little bit of metal welded in along the lower quarter panels, and needed a floor pan patch on the driver side front.
First off lets take a look at what I had to start with....
When I bought this poor baby in Spring of 2017 I din't know hardly anything about old cars. I had done a few salvage title bodywork type jobs on wrecked newer cars and just assumed I could handle an older car no problem...boy was I in for a surprise. The car was a basket case. Basically no interior. Nothing was bolted down good and tight, all the wiring was spaghetti rats nest, Brakes didn't work, tranny didn't really work, cooling system was iffy at best, gas tank leaked badly, and the motor had a blown head gasket. Pretty much every single mechanical problem you could have with a car, this car had. The body was not in horrible shape tho, which is basically what she was bought for. It needed a little bit of metal welded in along the lower quarter panels, and needed a floor pan patch on the driver side front.
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You did an awesome job! Now run the wheels off of it....lol.
