The work so far.

After we picked the 72 up we immediately began working on it. We are still not sure if we are going for a total frame off restoration or not. it seams like we are leaning more to the frame off side.

the first thing we knew we were going to tackle was removing the aftermarket bucket seats and the rear bench seat, and the remainder of the carpet that was in the car so we could get a good look at the floors to what kinda work we had ahead of us. The Floors were fairly solid, mostly minor surface rust under the back seat and around were the front seat mounts. The worst of the rust was up in the front on the toe board, near the fire wall.


next to come out was the dash pad and the lower dash, both cracked and in need of being replaced. We took the dash out the hard way leaving all the components still attached to the firewall.


well pulling the dash wire harness we discovered that at one point in time the heater switch had shorted out and melted. We also discovered we would need a new bulkhead connector at the firewall. It was all dry rotted and broke in to several pieces.
We also sorted out the mess of wires spliced in to everything for the aftermarket radio that was in the car.
Well we were removing the door panels we found an original build sheet for the car. That will help us in restoring the car in part to its original glory.

With the inside of the car pretty much striped down we moved on to the exterior. all the trim was striped off the car and we began exploring the badly rusted areas. We could tell that patch work had been attempted on both rear quarter panels. This apears to be the worst of the areas to need rust repair.

















we have also began to remove the vinyl top to inspect some area's that appear to have vinyl rot under it. The area below the rear window has some holes that have rotted threw but only minor holes. We have also removed the rear window.