Bought a project car....

[meechum68]

Love the progress of this.  

 

[FLHCAHZ]

The carpet and padding is out!  Wore lots of ppe to safeguard against the mold and mouse droppings.  Working to remove the floor console now.  I have a few stuck fasteners soaking in penetrating fluid and hopefully will get back to it on Sunday.

[FLHCAHZ]

I was able to get the console out last night. Didn't even break anything. I put it on the bench and started cleaning it so it's ready when I'm going to put it back in. Came out better than I had expected:

[Daverde]

Looks great !! 

[FLHCAHZ]

All of the floor covering and insulation is finally out.  I've ordered some replacement floor pans for the worst of it, the rest will get patches welded in.  Wont be pretty, but it will be strong and safe.

 

You can see some of the original color in the pic:

[Zen]

So, it was originally green? Did you anticipate finding a rusted floor in there?

[Can-Con]

5 hours ago, FLHCAHZ said:

All of the floor covering and insulation is finally out.  I've ordered some replacement floor pans for the worst of it, the rest will get patches welded in.  Wont be pretty, but it will be strong and safe.

 

You can see some of the original color in the pic:

 

Never would have expected that as it's the same copper colour my Riv was. 

Good to hear you can get floor pans for it. when I had mine you couldn't get them.  IIRC, my floor was about the same as yours, maybe a bit worse, including the whole trunk floor.

[FLHCAHZ]

21 hours ago, Zen said:

So, it was originally green? Did you anticipate finding a rusted floor in there?

Yep, original color was green (Emerald Mist).  I did anticipate some rust in the floor, but maybe no this much.  It looks a lot worse in the pictures because I took a pointed body hammer and beat the snot out of it to expose any weakness.  Not a a big deal to weld new metal in though.

Edited October 16 by FLHCAHZ

[FLHCAHZ]

The floor pans are supposed to be delivered today. Since the last update, I used a wire wheel and shop vac to get the rest of the fuzzies and surface rust gone. I have also replaced one of the seat studs that I had to cut to get the drivers seat out. After the floor is done, I am planning on painting it with Rustoleum Farm and implement paint and primer. I have it in my cabinet left over from some work I did on my Silverado.

[FLHCAHZ]

Did some fabbing on the floors over the weekend.

[FLHCAHZ]

I got the left under the rear seat pan in over the weekend.  Its UGLY, but strong and no one will ever see it.  Most importantly though is that I learned a bunch and the passenger side shouldn't be that bad

[Bills72sj]

Seeing your floor pans makes me SO glad my 72 Grand Prix is so solid. 

[Daverde]

So do I a friend of mine back in the 80s had a few of these cars from beater to lo miles I bought a double black 71 GS at a yard sale 

I was in the back of the garage I got it running put air in the tires and sold it to my friend who collected them ! It was loaded black with black interior console and buckets too no rust low miles the ignition wire from the column had a factory defect and shorted out I found the bad part fixed it ..