Bound4Dixie's 70 Build Up

[bound4dixie]

Thanks Guys. It's a work in progress. So...I got a little more tear down done this past Saturday.

After a lot of PB Blaster and wrenching, I finally got the front fenders/grill off so that I could get a better look at those rusty inner fender aprons.


So...There's good and bad. The bad is that someone that owned it before me decided they really liked bondo and must have had a fleet sized tub. Most of the fenders are bondo.



I pulled off upto 1/4" thick chunks of it! After pulling back some of the bondo at one of the seams, I found that the front grill was welded to fenders.



I was hoping to salvage at least the front grill, but I might have a long row to hoe after seeing this:




Yeah that's a lot of bondo in the corners.

Both of the aprons are shot, but the kick panels seem to be pretty solid except the part where it overlaps with the apron:



After removing the heater box intake and cleaning away a half inch of Wyoming dirt, I found an interesting line in the sheetmetal. Is this stock or what?


Found a little rust on the front side of the striker posts. I'm gonna have to investigate it a little more.


Got the front bumper pulled, but had to get out the blue wrench because somebody bent the horns up badly with what looks like some log chains they used at some point to pull the bronco.


All in all there's not quite as much rust as I imagined, but the amount of bondo makes me wonder what other surprises I might find...