Floored

The floor was so rotten that putting in patch panels was out of the question. After hunting around for a while I bought the wreck of a Kiwi assembled 1963 Dodge that had slammed into a motorway barrier at 80 miles an hour and had been completely stripped. I paid $100.00 for it which included delivery from the other side of town.

I chopped the floor out of my car from under the brake pedal to the front of the rear seat and the same with the wreck and after a lot of scraping and cleaning to remove the underseal and sound deadener it was fitted into my car and Mig welded in and then quickly run over with a grinder to remove the dags. I used all the factory seams and after seam sealer and painting it is very hard to see that anything has been done to it at all.

The subframe was in excellent order under all that grotty looking stuff, it was all cleaned up and properly protected and painted. The trunk floor was getting thin and had lots of pinhole sized holes in it so a panel was made up to go into the trunk floor and welded in. Front and rear screens were removed and a couple of rust holes repaired. This all sounds easy but it was a slow process and it was about 6 months until it was back in my garage and the real work could start.