My boy's first Mopar!

Yep, always cool to see a young guy go at it.

I'm always fighting/preventing rust on my old junk. I replaced the floors in my 69 cuda and while the front frame rails were exposed, I sand blasted and rustproofed inside the rails. But before that, I welded short sections of 1/8" plate tieing the torsion bar anchor tubes to the frame rails. The reinforcements added are inside the rails and gets covered by the floor pans. Too many old A-bodies went to the junkyard around here because the frame rails rusted and the T-bar anchor twisted out and BANG! the front end is in the weeds, the fuel line gets ruptured and off to the boneyard it went. You had enough floor rust that I would take a good look at the rail thickness in that area.

Keep at it Vaughn.