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How Do You Eat an Elephant?
Just take lots of little bites!
I started at the front(who wants to eat an elepahant from the rear end first anyway). I stripped the body work and started to look at the radiator area and front suspension. The gas tank front mount floor had been replaced, it was done pretty well but the upper part was missing. In it's place was an i-beam cross brace sort of thing between the front suspension mounts that was quite firmly welded in (I liked the concept but not the execution) and some body work around it that wasn't as firmly welded in.
The radiator was sort of mounted but as mentioned earlier it looked like it had been stung by a bee and reacted badly.
There were a few extra holes here and there, a Renegade Hybrid cut down alloy tank that was not mounted, some wiring and a battery floating in the smugglers box. It was generally a good start and something I could work with. So I did what I thought any logical human would do and cut it all out.
One of the saving graces to this project is that all the mechanical areas are painted with Por 15 instead of body color so I have been able to grind away to my hearts content(and my ears discontent) and weld in whatever I wanted and just touch up the paint without worrying about matching the body color. Is it show worthy? No. Is it practical? Yes indeed!
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