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I started this project in the middle of June which turned out to be perfect timing.
It was a month of finding out exactly what I had and one need to be done. I had
removed most of the carpet and interior and taken the car to a local body on to
have some work done that I don't have the expertise or tools to do. Overall the
body is in very good shape. Unfortunately or fortunately, depending on how you look
at it, the car had undercoating applied early in his life. This is good as it preserves
the floor but it's not going to be very much fun to remove.
This is the center console partially removed. As expected the wiring harness for
the radio has been hacked up. However, I do have a complete, correct, wiring harness
to replace it
With the interior carpet and panels removed it's easy to see what great shape the
body is in. but it's not perfect
After I had the interior remove I discovered some issues which required the services
of a local body shop. The maroon seat is one I had sitting around. I used it to drive
the car to and from the body shop. it won't be staying
There were two main issues that needed to be repaired. First thing, the tie downs
in the front of the vehicle had been poled outward as if someone had over tightened
the straps during transport. The driver-side was not too bad but the passenger-side
had actually separated the frame rail seam. I painted the area pink so the body
shop would know where I was talking about.
The second area that needed to be repaired was the passenger-side rear shock mount.
At some point it had broken through and whoever “tried” to fix it simply welded
a washer above and below the body. Well, the “repair” did hold but it's crap and
needed to be fixed properly.
While in the body shop, I decided to have the frame measured. The car had been pretty
beat up in its life and I didn't want to sink a bunch of money into the car with
the twisted frame. Likely, the frame is in good shape, most of the bodywork to be
done is cosmetic.
Next month, it will undergo a complete tare down.
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