To that person who owned my car.

[tstarx]

What would you say to that individual, that owned your car before you. After you got it home and stripped it?
1) Just because it's carpet, doesn't mean shag carpet goes in a car.
2) Galvanized steel and sheet metal screw doesn't make for a good long term repair.
3) That noise you hear in the back is not knocking from your home-made 1/4" flat steel ladder bar, it's from your rear end grinding metal.
4) The rust and scale in your car doesn't give it character it's from your galvanized patch panels that you cleverly installed.
5) Last but not least. the gas tank is nice and secure, doesn't mean it's okay to secure your relocated battery to it VIA 3" sheet-metal screws.

[buickfunnycar.com]

Hang in there man...it usually get's worse.

[tstarx]

I'll tell the story of the lemans I bought fully restored for $800 one day.

[rokketride]

1. You said rust in only one place and you've "been all over the car" ....you must be blind.
2. No, 3 out of 11 clips holding the heater box together is not adequate.
3. So, you did a FULL rebuild of the front suspension using dryrotted bushings?
4. The shifter arm shouldn't be the only thing holding the console in place.
5. When you replace the engine with one from a later era, you're not supposed to reuse the original timing cover/pointer on the newer balancer even though it will bolt on. Yes 5 degrees is a lot to miss TDC by.

[Chris442]

1. Bondo is not an appropriate substitute for welding.
2. OTOH, the lack of welds made it easy to take apart the shoddy repairs, so thanks for that.
3. Apparently, people have widely varying definitions of "ready for paint."
4. When you go to spray primer, for God's sake, remove all the trim first. It was a massive PITA to have to remove all that overspray from otherwise good stainless.
5. Also, good idea to mask off the inside of the car before you spray primer, too. Not that much of it was worth saving, but it's just the whole idea.

[70rs]

And don't forget to remove the glass, trim, interior, lenses, urethane body parts, chrome,ENGINE and transmission BEFORE you take it to media blasting.....

It's amazing how much of the car will need to go in the trash if you don't.