Hi Smack...yes, mother nature is relatively kind to sheetmetal out here...as compared to where I'm originally from (Long Island) with salt on the roads in the winter....The fact that this car had a real healthy serving of factory undercoating probably helped things a bit too.
I ran a separate post on the color selection and I think I have it narrowed down to Bronze color #1 with black stripes:
https://lateral-g.net/forums/showthread.php4?t=1877
Hey Anthony yes the DSE tubs will go in after the car gets back from media blast. I have to decide if I am going to do the new DSE 4-link or not, because if I do that will affect how the upper shock xmember goes. Decisions, Decisions...