Day 42 - Officially Building the car back up

So today was the start of building the car back up. I said once it came back from the sand blasters that it had officially hit rock bottom. Well I was wrong. After all the pieces of rusted out metal were cut out... it had hit rock bottom. But today we move onto the welding phase where we are now starting to build the car back up. It is exciting seeing it go into the build-up stage!

This is all of the cut pieces of metal laid out. They all are fit and ready to be welded to the car.
Mike painted some of the pieces with POR-15. I did forget to post about him taking the pieces and sandblasting them in his sandblasting cabinet to get them ready. That was a couple days ago. So today he worked on getting them painted with POR-15.

He then went ahead and painted the frame rails and where the metal for the floor will overlap. He did this so that it will protect the metal from rusting where metal overlaps.. since moisture can get in there. It also stops any existing rust from getting worse.

Its hard to tell but this is looking towards the trunk of the car where he painted it around the edges and on the top of the frame rails.

Meanwhile, Mikes dad started welding. This is the frame rail where there were some holes. It still will need to be smoothed out where it was welded.

He got 4 of the pieces welded onto the fender aprons on the driver and passenger side. Mike then coated them with POR-15
This is the underside of the weld. There are still the top pieces that will be welded on here as well.

He also got one of the two pieces on the fender apron (where the battery tray goes) welded in place.

This is a view from the top. As you can see there is still one more piece to be welded on top.

Today was a very productive and exciting day! I LOVE seeing all the progress being made.