Ivan's coupe: bodywork is done

[Ivan141]

Ah, finally I can reach the forum again.

Here's the latest episode in my painstakingly slow resto:

Bashed the front sill seams back in shape and removed the factory
jack reinforcement brackets.
Turns out there was rust lingering beneath those on both sides, so I patched that up.


Penetration (yes yes):


Made me some sturdy platforms and welded them in:



All in all an easy job to weld, but about 3 hours just to clean those 2 bits
of the floorpan (very irregular shapes make for difficult scraping).

Just realised I will need to modify the on-board jack, or the jacking points to work with eachother. Otherwise I'm fooked in case of a roadside problem.

Thought this little spot could be patched up in an hour:


I was wrong. Rust had gotten into the seems apparently, and my old welding
geezer had not done a neat job of fixing it up before he welded gussets in.
Was a b*tch to get the gussets out, and I ended up with a big old exploratory incision.


Where I would least want it with the car in the rotisserie:



It'll be patched up in the next garage session I'm sure.