Little discourage here. Been spending a fair amount of time thinking about and looking at suspension mounting point and since I can't do any welding yet, I have just been sticking my head under the fenders and thinking. Thats when I noticed that the sheetmetal is wrinkled.
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You can even see where the sheetmetal was when the undercoating was sprayed on.
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Now that I look at the gaps, I can see that I should have looked deeper much earlier. The gap between fender and rocker is pretty big. The gap on the other side looks fine.
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The car has some rust in the quarters and was obviously ridden hard, but I wasn't thinking jumping ditches. Not really sure what to do with it all now.
In the end, I will probably leave it alone and get it running and driving. But my gut says at the very least it will need frame work at some point before I reinforce the front. I thought the car was structurally good, obviously I was wrong.