Car almost ready for body shop

The body shop can start the week of 3/7, so I plan on delivering the car there on Saturday 3/5.  Got the other half of the car bead blasted week of 2/21.  Spent Saturday 2/26 re-installing the major panels and prepping the portions of the car not bead blasted.  The bead blasting sure removes any prior body filler,  let's just say I have found some "opportunities" for the body shop. 

Here's four major views of the car from the four corners:

Here's a closeup of the passenger door, I was not aware that it had been hit and repaired:

Here's a view of the passenger side windshield mounting area, kinda ugly, had quite a bit of filler in there.  There is a tap plate that the windshield bolts go into, when this prior repair had been done they replaced the tap plate, I found the old one inside the front fender, was rusted real bad.

There here's the rear passenger side fender:

Looks like the passenger side was hit several times over the years.

The driver's side front was also hit, damaged the front clip and the inner fender.  Front clip also has some rust issues down low:

Then there's the passenger side front fender, I knew it has rust issues down low, here's some of the swiss cheese there:

Well, Darrell is good, and I am delivering him the car with all rusty bolts loose with the nuts all tapped so it's easy to get the parts on/off.  But he will definitely have some fun welding this thing back together!

Half Way Point - Body Prep

I decided to tackle one side of the car at a time, that way if I forget where something goes I can look at the other side!  I removed the two fenders and door from driver's side, plus trunk lid and spare tire cover, and took those five parts to the sand blasters last weekend, due back early next week.  I also repaired or replaced all captive nuts and the bolts connecting the floor to the frame.  I have learned a lot about removing rusty bolts!  I bought an angle grinder, which has been invaluable.  I prepped the remaining bit of body work on the driver's side.  Here's some current photos:

These are front and back views.

As you can see above, there's not much left of the original floors.

There are three pieces of sheet metal that Darrell, my body guy, will have to install.  They are in the above pictures.  The floor is the silver piece.  The outer sill is the one next to it in primer.  The the rear wheel arch is the one two pictures above.  The outer sill and rear wheel arch were bought over 15 years ago by prior owners and never installed. 

 This shot shows the other side, kind of a "before" picture for the driver's side.  My goal is to get the car ready for Darrell by sometime in March.

I also had Darrell come by and give me a quote on the bodywork.  Overall I am fine with the quote, would like to pay less but I know he'll do a good job.  The challenge now is to manage all the other costs to stay within budget.....the reward for being under budget is new chrome wire wheel, but I'm not counting on that.

I also sent the eight pieces of "capping" to the interior guy in Ohio today.  Capping is the pieces that go on the top of the door, dash, and around the rear of the interior to finish off these areas.  Tim in Ohio will re-cover my capping, build me two new seats using new material and foam but used seat frames, and also send all other interior bits needed to complete the interior.  I'm having it done in black with red piping, original interior was black with white piping but I like the red better.