Laguna Blue 75 build thread, Freshly painted Options

[Tim17]

The previous owner told us the hell hole and longs had been done and he seemed like an honest car guy. So that was dumb and naive of me. It was clear that a bunch of work had been done around the hell hole, which looked good from the engine bay. When we got it home and on the lift we were faced with a rusted out lower firewall.
Ordered a firewall repair panel.
We pulled the engine today and cut out the lower firewall and it’s pretty ugly.

[Tim17]

Got the rear long panels all welded up and installed the jack pad and seam sealed it.
Addressed rusty portion of the fender panel before tack welding it into place. Door gap was tight when we started, but really tightened up more after all the welding on the long even with the door braces. Had some good input earlier from @Superhawk996 to wait to address this.

With the fender tacked in solidly, went to work on the door gap and got that looking pretty good, by slitting the fender and repositioning the door frame edge and tacking it.






It feels good to have the major structural repairs done and to have the door closing ok and restoring the door gap.