I got a good bit more done to the body

I have been able to spend a little bit of time with the bug through the week. Part of the reason, Baseball season is coming to an end and who really cares about the Red Sox? It also helps that it is still in the 90's around here and the garage is not getting cold at night.

I want to start off with a few pictures around the front windshield. This is the area that I am going to concentrate on this week. I pulled the wiper motor out of the car so I have a little extra room to move around.... also, it needed to come out at some point anyway. It is coming along fairly nice right now but there are a bunch of little spot that need some extra attention before I put the wire brush to it.

I have been putting a lot of attention to some of the areas you have already seen... It has been taking a lot of time and a lot of patience but, it has been paying off. There is 35 years of gunk on the body of this car and I guess I was expecting this to move a bit quicker but what can I do? I told myself early on that I would take my friends advise and take my time with this project. I want this car to be show quality when I am done.

You can also see that I got the garage floor cleaned up, there was a ton of paint scraped off and laying all over the place. Surprisingly, the paint gets crunchy after it lays out for a couple of days and you happen to step on it..... Just in case you wanted to know.

One area that I know is going to take a lot of time is the front passenger side fender. When I was stripping the paint off of that fender, there was a lot of body filler coming off with the paint. It looks like most of the front fender was covered with body filler.

I guess the car hit something (or was hit) in the front passenger side because there is a ton of wrinkling in the fender well, there is some on the drivers side but the passenger side is sever. Also, there are a few rust spots that I know are going to be stubborn in getting fixed. You can see below that they are pretty ugly.

Another little rust spot is on the rear passenger quarter panel. It is pretty small and I should not have any problems filling it. I was really happy to find out that I don't need to buy a new rear deck lid. After it was removed and I had a little bit of time to look at it, I was surprised that it was perfectly straight and just needs to be worked over like the rest of the car. I don't have a picture but the other pieces, that houses the tag light, but they are in the process of being stripped and readied for primer just as the deck lid. Maybe I can have a completed, and primer-ed picture up next week. Maybe? The interior...

There is nothing that I can say that would be positive about the interior at this time. Besides not being a functioning space, it is wrecked and it is in the worst possible shape an interior can be in.

Once I get the body work taken care of, I was planning on moving to the inside of the car. I am going to strip it all down why the body is still on the frame (remember, I have to take care of those floor pans so the body is going to have to come off). I don't plan on stripping all of the paint out of the interior since most of it is going to be covered with

That's all for this week.

I hope Colorado is able to sweep Boston thus, doing something that has never been done before (plus Boston losses so, it is a win-win in my eyes)