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kerristallax
It seems like we have a number of "previous shop getting away with murder" threads going on now, so I thought I'd share this Ghia with the board.
The owner thought he had it restored by another individual a few years back and the car sat waiting to be assembled. It's been on hold / in storage for quite a long while, but we are finally making some progress on it. At first, we were going to replace the cheap sprayed-on undercoating with something better and then assemble the car for the owner. Of course, as you start getting into a car like this, you notice all the problems that were covered up or just plain not fixed at all. We knew that it had some rusty inner frame rails and were planning on replacing those + repainting the car the correct color as opposed to the John Deere green it sits in now.
The previous guy replaced the outer rocker panel skins and left the rotten inner structure in place.
Lots of silver aluminum bondo poking through rust pinholes all over this car. This was just the beginning.
The replacement frame rails are stout pieces, but lack all the heater channel mounting points and holes. I fabbed the front section
and cut a creative-shaped hole for the rear
Fits pretty good for such an irregular shape
Then you find all the pinholes in the dogleg section and replace that...
Fitting the inner panel (also had to be replaced) with the hole to the outside took a lot of massaging
The owner thought he had it restored by another individual a few years back and the car sat waiting to be assembled. It's been on hold / in storage for quite a long while, but we are finally making some progress on it. At first, we were going to replace the cheap sprayed-on undercoating with something better and then assemble the car for the owner. Of course, as you start getting into a car like this, you notice all the problems that were covered up or just plain not fixed at all. We knew that it had some rusty inner frame rails and were planning on replacing those + repainting the car the correct color as opposed to the John Deere green it sits in now.
The previous guy replaced the outer rocker panel skins and left the rotten inner structure in place.
Lots of silver aluminum bondo poking through rust pinholes all over this car. This was just the beginning.
The replacement frame rails are stout pieces, but lack all the heater channel mounting points and holes. I fabbed the front section
and cut a creative-shaped hole for the rear
Fits pretty good for such an irregular shape
Then you find all the pinholes in the dogleg section and replace that...
Fitting the inner panel (also had to be replaced) with the hole to the outside took a lot of massaging