Most of my time this past week has been getting organized... Finding a place to store my Phoenix so I have room to work...buying a new air compressor, new pressure washer, a heater for my garage, and some tools including a pneumatic needle scaler to get rust off. I also ordered new brakes... everything from master cylinder to brake drums--all new. 2 days ago, I finally got to spend several hours and got all the driver's side front apart, cleaned and primed with rustoleum rusty metal primer on back and front of backing plate.
The plan is to get the brakes working first then attack the underbody and frame. along with gas tank replacement and gas line. I must say I have been encouraged so far that under a bunch of scale and surface rust everything seems very solid.
Next will be to get this running...
Body-wise, it needs a lower passenger qtr panel--at least most of it; patch panel on driver's fender and exploratory work on driver's qtr. It has had work done to it (not so hot) so I need to get the paint off it and see what's under there.
I can fix the passenger door and fender but the driver's door is a big question mark... Lower corner almost totally gone...
Finally, pull the front end off and do the front frame, suspension and , of course, pull the engine & trans. rebuild the engine and check out trans.
That's roughly the plan... Seats will be redone somewhere in there too!
See a couple pictures below...
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