Going through the process of bracing, making reference measurements, and cutting out the bad metal and cleanup.
*Some of my pics are out of order as I came back to document the build. While removing the quarters I purposely cut around and left the front side of the quarters in the door jamb area until I rebuilt the door hinges and was able to maintain an accurate body line for reference.
The inner structure is cleaning up nice. The rockers look good top and bottom.
The package tray filler area will have to be patched where it meets up with the trunk gutter.
Looks like someone installed the rear speakers with an axe. Hopefully I can find the awesome stamped/recessed 6x9 patch panels I've seen on some Lat-G builds somewhere.
The front floor boards have seen better days. The dash is good and tunnel is salvageable.
The top dash panel was shot all along the bottom windshield area. I'm going to have to replace the upper 2" of the cowl across the entire windshield area as well.
Anyone know what the slot is cut out for on the passenger side cowl? It looks like a dealer/aftermarket install as the cut-out looks like it was done with a chainsaw. Whatever mounted in there looks to have been bolted to a factory installed bracket. Something for CA emissions?
The doors are worse and will have to be patched as well. Here's a pic after I cut most of the shredded metal away. I sure hope it wasn't a stereo shop that did this.
