[The Glademister]

Yesterday I revisited this car. It's been wrapped up under cover all winter and when I pulled the tarp, everything was nice and dry. Looking into the rear trunk, there's a new mouse nest! What's with mice and these 914s? Anyway, I wanted to see how the drivers side long looked under the rocker cover so I grabbed my grinder and sheared off the bolt heads. I learned my lesson on the '73 that it's just not worth the effort to extract those. The drivers long is bad on the outside. However, the inner long looks pretty good. I poked around in the drivers floor pan - scrapping up the crusty sound deadening material and so far the tunnel sides look good. So the list for replacement sheet metal so far would be...

Inner and outer long passenger side, outer long drivers side, rear passenger side floor pan (at least) and passenger side cross member.

The rear trunk pan on this car is really good and the front trunk pan could be salvaged but probably better to replace. The longs still have the joining surfaces so that would really help me get those in properly. I've been looking at project cars for sale and it appears prices are on the rise. I think I could save this tub and not take a bath