So you think all done by Xmas this year is a bit optimisticKitch wrote:Yeah looks fairly typical for rust.
Mine looked pretty good before the sodium blasting! Then I could really see all the sins.
Paint & Panel on mine took around 650 hours…. (That’s full professional resto)
Note that there is an outfit in OZ that do rust repair sections for these, sills, floor pans etc
if you can cut & weld, then they would be very cost effective to do pillar repair and the likes.
Good luck – you have a long road ahead!
Have you got a link to the place in Aus? Ive found a place on Ebay that does the sills with the correct shape at ends for 60aud, waiting on a shipping price. The bottom of the A Pillars looks pretty simple to fold up, so might not worry too much, and the floors are ok apart from a couple of small holes where the water has sat against the edge of the underseal. Under the car is pretty much perfect, not even any pin pricks of rust, and all looks original and no serious signs of previous repairs.
Cut the drivers side sill out this avo, found most of the spot welds and got the center section nice and loose, so cut that bit out, now need to work out how to get the ends out, especially the back as it goes under the body work.
