Simso’s 79 Non rust bucket resto

Epoxy Primed

 

Yep amazing what you find as you dig, it has had rust repairs previously, the give away was this when it was paint stripped,the dash panel had been cut away, I am guessing for access to the base of the A pillars, then its been zipper welded back on

 

Its been a little while, the paint shop likes to get cars like mine in and stripped down to bare metal, then they get the bare metal into an epoxy primer and put the car into a corner to come back to at a later date with a plan.

This allows them to keep their overheads at bay with the normal smash repair work.

It makes sense, you have no idea whats under the skin, they let me know on friday its on the floor having the last bit of rust work done now and then into colour

 

So hiccup.

Paint shop is down an employee, they are only a small shop, they had kind of pushed my car back into the corner and wont be working on it for a little while.

So shes coming home tomorrow till january, so that lets me fit the new motor and new transmission with no body panels in the way, hopefully a setof solid sub frame mounts that I ordered from summit will arrive in time and i will fit them as well before it goes back to them

Here is the motor and tranny waiting for a home

 

Back home for a couple of months

 

Up close of the motor and wiring before i pull her out.

 

Motor pulled, so much room without fenders

that being said, we had to drop the nose and all hardware off as the hoist could not reach the engine, new engine is in as well but I need to clean up before taking a photo

I have had a big issue with the brakes on this car since I bought it, so when the master cylinder was in the way to take the exhaust off, we used the opportunity to remove it completley and now I can flush the main brake line to the back and see if thats my problem