Its the final countdown, progress thread Options

[type11969]

I've had this 71 for 3 years now and I've only driven it for 10 minutes before I bought it. I figure if I haven't made serious progress by the spring, she is getting stripped and scrapped. You'll see why. Its probably only a parts car, but I want to learn how to weld, and if I can get this thing back on the road, I think I will be well on my way. I'll start from the beginning:

The exterior, looks harmless enough:
(IMG:http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b188/type11969/914/914.jpg)

The interior, looks pretty good (wait, what was that saying about wrapping a piece of poo in a pretty package):

(IMG:http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b188/type11969/914/914012.jpg)

Long looks okay at first glance:

(IMG:http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b188/type11969/914/914009.jpg)

Wait, umm, is this factory installed golf ball sized hunks of epoxy and bondo:

(IMG:http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b188/type11969/914/111404015.jpg)

Yum:

(IMG:http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b188/type11969/914/111404010.jpg)

Delicious:

(IMG:http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b188/type11969/914/111404012.jpg)

Craptacular:

(IMG:http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b188/type11969/914/914-2018.jpg)

Brace yourself (also have another brace running to the drivers side door jamb, couldn't find that pic):

(IMG:http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b188/type11969/914/111404001.jpg)

Couldn't find any pics of the lovely riveting and brazing job a PO did with re-attaching the portion of the fender below the sail, but I hacked that focker off:

(IMG:http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b188/type11969/914/121304002.jpg)

Mmm, clean:

(IMG:http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b188/type11969/914/121304013.jpg)

Also found after removing the interior that the passenger side was once used as a pool, the entire lower inner corner of the long and bulkhead was gone. PO crappily arc welded a new floorpan in, but didn't fix any of the other damage:

(IMG:http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b188/type11969/914/Picture069.jpg)

(IMG:http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b188/type11969/914/Picture070.jpg)

(IMG:http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b188/type11969/914/Picture071.jpg)

(IMG:http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b188/type11969/914/111404002.jpg)

Quick break, then pics of the repairs so far . . .

[type11969]

Got a little work done here and there over the past month, but for the most part, life got in the way of my 914 progress. Stupid life. Anyway, finally time for another update:

Heater tube back in -

(IMG:http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b188/type11969/914/pic001-6.jpg)

Painted the rust using Eastwood's Rust encapsulator (looks like I could use a bit more on the "roof" -

(IMG:http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b188/type11969/914/pic003-6.jpg)

Drilled and cut out the inner layer of this corner of the long and fabbed up a new layer -

(IMG:http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b188/type11969/914/pic005-5.jpg)

(IMG:http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b188/type11969/914/pic004-2.jpg)

The bottom edge of this inner rocker panel was a little thin due to rust erosion so I fabbed up an angle to thicken it up in the necessary areas. I also had to cut out and replace two rectangular areas where there were holes from a PO yanking the triangular gussets off that support the threshold-

(IMG:http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b188/type11969/914/pic006-3.jpg)

(IMG:http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b188/type11969/914/pic007-2.jpg)

Hopefully I'll start sealing the long back up later on this week!

-Chris