Cinnamon 75 Duster \

September ‘08 Week 2

I really never planned to do a ‘quality’ repair job. Like I said it was going to be a first car. First cars often end up in junk yards… I had envisioned patching a few holes in the fashion I did many years earlier. Slap a piece of sheet metal in with rivets and some caulk for the floors. Quick bondo job on quarters and drive…

This is where it gets ugly. After pulling carpet up I found that it would definitely require both front pans and then some. After probing around the quarters I realized the bottom of the trunk extensions were pretty much gone, replaced years before with extreme quantities of bondo and now rusted beyond that. The frame was ‘all there’and structurally solid , but had some questionable areas that I suspected would get flagged on inspection. Trunk floor had a few holes but did not look too bad at first. A little wire brushing showed there was a lot more work needed.
There was no question about it, this was going to need a lot of welding to be roadworthy. Getting someone else to do the welding was out of the question from cost perspective, so it was time to decide how far I wanted to go with it.