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Well here are some shots of the car. They say never to show an unfininished product. In some of these shots the progress looks pretty rough, but I still have a considerable amount of grinding and fabrication to do. Had to add that drivers side front fender. It came through the mail all the way from Atlanta. There were some challanges in fitting that thing on though, and there are some discrepencies that remain, but I had to split the difference on and work with it.
On the hood I fabricated a small section of reenforcement. Used a three quarter inch pipe as a form. I'll blend it in with some all metal. and sand to shape. It looks a lot better than what was there believe me.
I'm dealing with the rust as best as I can. I grind it till I get to the metal and then treat it with either permatex rust treatment or the Ospho. They both incorporate phosporic acid to dissolve and change the rust to a stable compound. The permetex has a binder it seems that gives it some body, then a spread a thin coat of All Metal over that.
I've got a Volkswagen engine in there temporarily, just to move it around. Spent a fair amount of time setting up the transaxel which as it turns out is a later model 741 C transaxle. To make a long story short I used an old style VW throwout bearing I purchased for $25 brand new. The rod and the coupler are C style and I ended up trading a 901 shifter straight across for a C shifter from a local mechanic, Adrian Gang at Edelwiess, a super nice guy.
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