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Other problems to address, are the interior floor and trunk floor. They looked good, but in addition to the toe board area rusted through due to the cowl leaks, both are pretty perforated with pin holes. Decision here is to replace with a 1-piece floor pan. The original passenger side fender can be saved and the driver’s side fender is a maybe (not because of rust, but because of a sizable crease due to an accident that was hiding beneath that was full of body filler). The passenger side front apron needs to go due to the typical battery acid damage. One original door is salvageable, while the other is not (looks like it may have filled with water and rusted through to the car’s interior). The quarters and wheel houses can all be saved with just some tweaking, but the taillight panel will need replacement due to a previously installed poor quality reproduction that has the fuel tank filler off center. One area that was unexpected is internal rust damage to the C pillar on the driver’s side due to mice having lived in there (it had come out of a barn in Middlebury, VT), so that will be attended to also. That’s probably the worst of it. Amazingly all 4 frame rails and the shock towers are in incredible shape. Speaking of the shock tower area, note that I had already drilled the holes to relocate the upper control arms the way Shelby did on his cars.
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