My First Build Thread, and a long time comin' Options

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So...technically I started this restoration a month ago, but now it has a thread (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

A little history...This was my first car. I picked it up for $1200 back in high school and had it towed home with mice in the glove box and hoses going to no where in the engine compartment! My dad and I had it up and running off and on for three years before I shipped off to southern California for college. It has sat in the 'rents driveway for 5 years now (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) waiting for the restoration that it deserves

Well...now that I'm edumacated and have a "real" job (and also have moved back to Northern California) my pockets are slightly deeper than in high school and the build has commenced!



So far I have stripped it to a tub, built me a rotisserie and washed off about 30 years of road grime and PO molestation. Along the way I even made a new friend! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

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Here are some picks of the car as it currently sits. Notice the prodigious amount of grime that I now get to sweep up (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)



I've started looking closer at the rust spots and am pleasantly surprised that there is not more (IMG:style_emoticons/default/piratenanner.gif) ....though it helps to start with low expectations. It looks like I will need to replace the engine shelf under the battery tray (which seems to have already been replaced by a PO). Does anybody know what the best way is to check the inside of the longs for rust? I figure I'll have to cut the exterior off, just wondering where to do it at.

Here are some close-ups of the hell-hole and the engine shelf under the battery tray