Re: [AMC-List] would you or wouldn't you??

[Matt Haas <mhaas@xxxxxxx>]

As long as I had a place to take it completely apart (plan on it taking up 
about 4 times it's assembled space for parts and work room), I'd be willing 
to tackle it. It looks to me like it needs some front floor work, quarter 
panels, trunk drop offs, and repair around the windshield and rear window 
(this will require fabrication of patch panels, you'll need a 
shrinker/stretcher tool to get the curves correct). I would start by media 
blasting it since it has a ton of surface rust from sitting in primer and 
seeing what you have to work with. Once it's blasted, you need to have the 
entire car epoxy primed and then keep it in a dry area or it will turn into 
a rusty pile very quickly. You'll also need some way to touch up the primer 
as you work on the car since you can't weld through epoxy primer. Do not 
leave the car in primer from an aerosol can or any other non-epoxy primer. 
This stuff absorbs water like a sponge. Regular body filler does as well 
(fiberglass based doesn't but it's more expensive and harder to work with).

What's not obvious from the pictures is how structurally sound it is. Are 
the frame sills (front and rear) solid and straight? What are the inner 
rockers like? What are the crossmembers under the floor like? How about the 
inner fenders in the front? This is no doubt a big project but if you're 
willing to spend the money on decent tools and learn to do it yourself, I'm 
sure you could handle it (unless you're very impatient then don't bother).

Matt

At 08:08 AM 4/13/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>Take a stroll over to http://gallery.madhorizons.com/main.php?
>g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=1702&g2_navId=x8a0189e9 and look at
>the pictures.  What i want to know is based on the pictures, would
>you listers attempt to restore that or call it in?
>
>Thx,
>Izzie
>73 Jav
>Atlanta
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