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My initial focus is to slacken the bolts holding the rear tub, and make sure that the door and bonnet gaps will eventually be able to look the part once the car is finished. To do this I started by:
- Removing the front seats
- Removing the front carpets
- Having found sound deadening film stuck everywhere across the front floor pan – remove that
- Disconnect the accelerator pedal
- Remove the seatbelts (only fitted to front)
- Remove the fuel tank
- Remove the rear boot carpets and rear boot board
- Having found sound deadening film stuck everywhere across the boot floor – remove that
After inspecting the floor pan from the inside, there is definitely some work needs doing to repair rust spots and perforations, although the majority will simply need cleaning and painting. As with the underside.
The more I see however, the more I am coming to understand that I have caught this car on the brink. Another couple of years exposed to UK weather would have most probably left this car’s body shell as scrap and too far gone to realistically restore. With this in mind I have decided to strip the car back to it’s shell and chassis and do the job properly.