Aaron's 76 Type LT Project

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Been a couple of weeks since I was able to do some meaningful work on the 76 (vacation followed by a busy week with work). Welded in the driver side floor pan this weekend using a lap joint. It's 90% done, still need to fill in some screw holes and place a patch over a gap between the toe board and the floor pan (you can see in the upper left area).

I've got a 4 day weekend ahead so should get into the pass side floor board then. Thanks for looking

Oh, here are a couple of pics from our vacation to Colorado. We weren't expecting snow at all but got ~12" up in Estes Park. We still had a blast.

Here's us snow shot hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park



Pike's Peak in the background during a nice 6 mile hike



One more of my favorites

6-7-2010

Sorry for no updates lately. I've been doing work but not been so good about uploading pics. Then I left my only memory card reader at work last week so that didn't help  I'll toss some pics up tonight, I promise. The pass side floor pan is going better than the driver side, as it should be. Hope to have the pass side pan done by this weekend and then I can move on to spraying the firewall and underside with epoxy and coat the rest of the interior metal.  

After that it will actually be kind of exciting since I will be putting the frame and all the suspension back on, so it will look more like a real car. I decided to put the car back on wheels before I replace the 1/4 panels. I think that will allow me to achieve a better fit with the car sitting in a more normal manner. If the car was on a steel rotisserie then I might not put the car on wheels, but it's on a creaky wooden rotisserie.

Picture time!

Decided to cut out a pitted area in the floor pan and weld a new piece in. Was pretty badly pitted so did not want to mess with trying to make it acceptable.

Piece that was cut out



New piece fits pretty well



And we'll skip what the welds looked like and get to the final product

Another patch I had to make where the driver side floor pan meets the toe board

Think I have enough screws? (BTW, I love these elf-tapping screws)



After a few spot welds



And ground down to its near final form

Working on the passenger side floor pan now.  

Not a bad fit





Decided to use smaller spot welds on the pass floor pan, mainly to try something new and see how it goes. Takes a little longer but should be easier to grind down. Just ignore that blow-out spot there...



I will need to replace a section of the toe board but that should be pretty easy. Luckily the sheet metal underneath is fine, so I will have a nice foundation to work with