Cary's 73 1.7 Rustoration Thread Options

[cary]

Well I figured its time to start documenting the rustoration of my 1973 1.7L.
This car was bought for and used by my oldest son to drive thru 4 years of high school in Montana.
You have to realize in Montana kids can get their license at 15.
I think we only put it on the trailer twice in those 4 years.

It was bought on Ebay. I think the closing bid was $1600. So off he went with his Grandpa, the truck and the trailer.
Then I get the call. Dad they lied .............. it does have some rust.
So here's a 15 year old negotiating a Ebay deal gone sour with the owner of tow track company.
So I told him to take inventory of the parts that we could use. Then make him a offer. So after handing him 10 $100 biils it was loaded on the trailer.

So me at 55 decided that I want to rebuild this car to be my daily driver for next 15 years.
It started out to be a quick tidy up and repaint. But we all know how that goes.

I have $1400 worth of new interior that James did for me. All bagged up.
I just received my $3300 order from Restoration Design.
I have a $1600 list for Mark at 914 Rubber.
So I figure I'll have $9000 into a car that might be somewhere in the $7000 range when I'm done.

[cary]

Woke up last night and read 18 pages of "engine console" search.

In doing so. I decided that the upper wheelhouse will not be removed. Its not that bad. Just need to tidy up a couple deep cuts I created when I removed the battery tray.

Was thinking the inner engine long might be saved. I kept looking at all the patching that everyone has done.

It would just take too many patches to get back to good clean steel. I have some really bad rust on the inner layer all the way up to the engine support. To me it's just too important to the structural integrity of the entire car to not change it. Hopefully my grand kids will be driving this car long after I'm gone. LOL.