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Whittled the old front panel off.

Realised later I should have also removed those flanges on the front of the inner wings.... the new front panel already has them. But that will make it easier to flatten out the damage in the front of the drivers inner wing.

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No photo, but I offered up the new panel. Bloody hell the edges are sharp. Cut my hand.

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I've been stripping and derusting the donor rear seat pockets. I've also done the seat base panel, but it's basically just a flat panel.

I used paint stripper and KBS rust blast, same stuff as metal rescue but it's a powder that you mix with water. You can see from all the tide lines, my tub wasn't big enough.

They are just drying after I rinsed them with my outside hot tap.

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There's a little bit of paint left to sand off and some panel beating to do.

These don't have the mount for the front seatbelt reel, so I'll have to make something.

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SO MANY HOLES to fill. The seat base originally is one big panel that includes the boot floor and it would join to a forward facing flange on that vertical panel. When the seat was deleted, the forward facing flange was cut off and the join was reinforced by wrapping a long strip of steel over it down the whole length.

But that leaves me with something like 30 spot weld holes with nothing under them.

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So what's going to be less work, filling all those holes, or welding on a new flange(which isn't straight at all) so I can weld through those holes into the new flange?

It looks much more complete with the seat bits in there.

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