Whew, seems like the car has been at SoCal Paintworks for an age (<2 weeks actually) , but they ARE hard at work!
When stripping they found a "repair" on the rear qtr by some previous owner. Looks quite a bit better now!
We had to cut the tunnel to get both the T-56 and some special reinforcements in place underneath so new tunnel is being fabbed:
Primer & block sanding again and again. Glad its not my garage...