Your coupe has less meat on it than my coupe. Did you actually use that shell? All that bad metal and the front cowl and dash are ok? Firewall must be gone at the bottom if you lost your front floor boards.
Front cowl and dash still looked like new. Floor boards rotted through on driver's side only. Were weak on passenger side, so we replaced those too. Trunk had a number of holes, could have been fixed. But was almost easier to replace the whole trunk pan. Rear quarters and wells were gone. Tail panel looked OK rust-wise, but must have been in a crash. Easier to replace than monkey with bent metal. And was easier to replace the one piece trunk pan with the tail panel out.
I think cutting the whole rear off the shell and replacing the trunk and rear sheet metal only took a couple of days. The wonders of a good plasma cutter! And someone smarter than me doing the work helped too!
Once the front frame and rear end were blasted, they both looked like new.
I REALLY need to get over to the body shop to see how the painting is coming along. Was supposed to be done this week or next. Just WAY TOO busy at work these days.
I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not sure. I feel like I am diagonally parked in a parallel universe. 1968 400 convertible (Scarlet) 1976 T/A - 455 LE (No Burt) 1976 T/A New baby, starting full restoration. 1968 350 - 4 speed 'vert - 400 clone (the Beast!) 1968 350 convertible - Wife's car now- 400 clone (Aleutian Blue) (Blue Angel) 2008 Durango - DD 2008 GXP - New one from NH is AWESOME! 2017 Durango Citadel - Modern is nice! HEMI is amazing! 1998 Silverado Z71 - Father-daughter project 1968 400 coupe - R/A clone (Blue Pearl) (sold) 1967 326 convertible - Sold 1980 T/A SE Bandit - Sold
