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I started a build thread on this car last Fall but I abandoned it for spending more time in the garage and less time on the computron. I have done a few top to bottom builds in my time but this one was a doozy. The two door hardtop conversion was challenging since the donor car has the longer wheelbase, so steel boxes needed to be fabbed and welded into the rear wheel wells to allow the rear windows to roll down all the way. lower quarters and the bottom half of the gate needed to be hand shaped and welded in place. Rockers were also fairly hammered and needed replacing. After all of this tin work the bondo work began and went on and on until my arms were ready to fall off. I then turned over the car to a local body shop since it became too nice for me to paint at this stage. The shop then proceeded to do two more weeks of smoothing and flattening. The two tone paint turned out amazing. I'll take more photos once I can roll it out into the yard. I'm currently starting a disc brake conversion, then onto the interior, followed by fuel injection. Many questions will be asked.
