Almost there...

Justin and I spent this morning taking off the rest of the items that needed to be removed before we could actually remove the body from the pan. Those things were: gas tank, gas line from the rear and front, brake line, the 2 bolts under the gas tank, the two bolts from under the rear seat, fuel gauge wire, engine wires, solenoid, accelerator cable, etc.

Once we were confident we had removed all the necessary items, we jacked up the body and it popped right off! We have yet to actually remove the body from the pan, since it was just the two of us weaklings (ok, I'm the weakling, Justin is all muscle).

Here's a picture of where we're at:















With most of the interior out, we're discovering a little more rust than we originally thought was there. It's not too discouraging since we knew we were going to have to do some rust repair.

Check out the picture below to see the Flintstone floor pan. Nasty, eh? Once we have the body off and the interior completely removed (including the windows and chrome exterior parts), we'll wheel it down to the body shop and get a real estimate on repairs. He's already seen the bug and given us an idea of what we're looking at, cost-wise. But now with everything out of it we can get real.

The parts list is growing. We're getting excited for the upcoming UVSC car show/swap meet to see if we can snag some needed parts. We're also heading to the Pomona Swap Meet in Southern California in a couple of weeks as part of a family vacation and can hopefully get some deals there as well.