Thanks guys - all the new metal in the car is 18 gauge cold rolled steel and some 16 for bracing.
So originally I bought the car with the following issues:
- Firewall
Trunk pan
Trunk lid brackets
subframe
windshield
After sandblasting we discovered that the fenders had a good amount of bondo on them and that it would be better to buy new fenders. We also discovered that someone had rolled one of the fenders pretty badly to add a 1/2 inch of additional clearance on the passenger side so that would need to be squared away - plus the lips had started to rust all together.
So the list turned into:
- Firewall
Trunk pan
Trunk lid brackets
subframe
new fenders
quarter lip repair
windshield
To get all this squared away we put a large order into AMD for fresh metal and it arrived like a christmas package to the welder!
While all this was getting taken car of I was on the hunt for drivetrain/suspension and came across a hybrid LS motor for sale that was used by Hot Rod Magazine to do a cam test then shelved and never put into an actual car... I had to pick it up.
