Somewhere around this time Dad sent the car to a media blasting company. They stripped the cockpit, trunk and bottom of the car. Dad got everything in primer and actually put a lot of the car back together....
He got the car running largely thanks to a station wagon he bought and parted out. The wagon was mechanically good and was a sound, running, driving car in the early 90's but it was very, very rusty....
Most all the running gear and suspension, starting out, came from that wagon. The car had a 352 2-V and a cruise-o-matic at this time. No windows, no seats. Just a running shell. Then Dad blew it all back apart to paint the bottom of the body, the firewall, the trunk and the cockpit. Here's a couple of pics from when it came off the frame....
In the pic above, you can see the passenger door has been replaced with a real nice one to get rid of a deep crease. You can see the rest of the crease in the quarter panel. This is where Dad later drilled holes to pull the crease out....