This is what we started with....

Every body panel from front to back was beaten and dented....

We started rust repair here....the customer only wanted to replace the lower quarter panel so that's all we did...not sure what is above that patch panel we installed.  The customer originally wanted to fix the major body issues to pass inspection and just make it a driver.

The interior was absolutely brutal and missing so much...

The engine turned out to be a 360 - not the correct engine but the customer didn't want to swap it for a proper engine that would have come in this car - no big deal it'll still drive!

The grille was missing and the whole front end was beat pretty bad. 

We did a compression check on the engine - no rebuild as per the customer.  New gaskets, new fuel pump, new water pump and some paint makes her look better.

Rust repair on the quarter...we didn't take it down to bare metal above the patch panel as per the customers' request but we did put fresh metal where we cut out the rust

You can see in

Brand new gas tank installed

We would have liked to have put a full quarter on this side but we did what the customer asked which was just a lower patch

As you can see there was a ton of bondo in the old girl

We couldn't in good faith leave all that bondo on the car.  The customer decided to go gloss black instead of flat black on the paint so now we step up our game and machine it straight - no hand blocking as the customer didn't want to spend the extra money & time but she'll still look great

Ahhhh, fun with door pins, always a good time!

There...that's better - off to paint she goes for gloss black paint