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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I started the big dig into the hell hole this weekend and have yet to get to the bottom the proverbial rabbit hole. Before any cutting started I made use of some scrap metal to make the braces for the door jams.



I know they are a bit ... thick ... but hey, the metal was free. Donated from the old roll bar out of my dad's old Jeep (After he upgraded).

I cut out what was left of the battery tray and started into a past owner patch job only to find a treasure trove of rust. Its as if the guy who did the patch just welded in some metal w/o touching the rust beneath it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif) Every cut only seemed to expose more.