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Man I need to start renting a bay. Ok my rule of thumb for this project is take my original estimate, and add the number of weeks in the average year multiplied by 1000 and that's my starting cost($65000 is my starting cost anything under that is great). My car is not that bad off either.

Marclar, this is marclar. Approaching marclar.

Hey Joker, have you thought about a donor pan?? I was faced with this same querry last month with my 50 and while I was sitting & figgering & farting, I started going over all the stuff I had to haul to the scrap yard- and there , upside down, was a old S-10 cab from a frame donor.
I split it into 4 parts with the old trusty sawzall, clipped the rockers to go along, and there it was a new 50 floor pan, with upgrades for the late model tranny built in.

Streets, reason I want to lay a pad is so I have a a strudy place to jack the car up on and all that rather than just dirt or gravel.
hambiskit, I have been thinking that, but not sure what vehicle would fit my plymouth, and also was thinking that the donor pan might just be as bad as the original or getting as bad once I start cleaning it up. I don't know I think I will just hold on with the pan until I get it into a garage portable or what not. Then I can take the time to measure it all out and see if I can find a new vehicle that will fit and find it cheap, or just build one from scratch.

Thanks again guys for all the help and support

Originally posted by techinspector1
HUH ?

Do me a favor Tech. Watch the 3rd season of South Park. then you'll get it.

Well guys, I just finished tearing out all the interior, seats carpet and all that crap. And I feel a heck of a lot better about the car, seems the only rust area is in the front, the back seat area is still solid, surface rust only, nothing going through. So the only places I need to replace are the front and a spot in the trunck over where the spare tire sits. And the best part is that its all flat, no dips or humps except the tranny hump and thats solid except for one spot about the size of a quarter, so I have plenty of good metal to work with. And I just talked to my dad and he said we have plenty of steel around 20 gauge up at the farm that was left over when they built the graineries.

LOL thanks streets, I think I already made waves with them when I parked the car on the grass beside my house for 2 months before they told me to move it as my neighbor complained because he is trying to sell his place for twice what its worth. Some people just think their homes are worth more than they really are and blame others for it not selling I guess.
But I just might do that, I think I will take up the grass and put down gravel beside my house up to where I believe the line it and go from there, for now.
Also I got more pics of the interior if anyone cares LOL. Just click my WWW button as I am making a website of the progress, Its a simple site for now, I will improve it later when I have more time and my other computer running that has all my webpage programs on it from when I was designing sites.

Also guys, got another question, What is the crap that is sprayed on the floorboards? Its looks almost like a rhino lining type spray, this has to be original on my car, Just want to know what it is so I can spray it back on after I put in the new floor.
Thanks

It might be somthing like tar.

Not sure, right now it just breaks off and is a gray color, looks almost like a thick layer of primer, but its not primer.
Any suggestions on what to cover the floor with to help stop rust and corrosion from moisture?

I would sand the rust off ( or sand rust smooth ) and then apply some dupli rattle can sandable primer, that should slow the rusting prosess

Originally posted by joker51
Not sure, right now it just breaks off and is a gray color, looks almost like a thick layer of primer, but its not primer.
Any suggestions on what to cover the floor with to help stop rust and corrosion from moisture?

por-15

Everytime I get into a building a car I feel that way. As you I start off thinking it will be easy and as I dig in find more and more wrong with the car, before you know it I went into the car way more than I really wanted to and spent way more money than I wanted to.
Just keep on working on it and it will be finished one day. The 73 RS camaro I have now took me 8 years to get on the road. Just take your time and get it right the first time. I took a few short cuts on mine near the end, when painting and I'm paying for it now. I have some solvent pops and have some damn compound all up in places where I can't get it out because I let it dry up like a fool. Next time I will piece paint the car like I intended to do in the first place.

Matt, I am doing the car in Krylon or Rustoleum auto primer in rattle can already, Can't remember if its krylon or not, I think its rustoleum though.
How much does Por-15 run? I checked for it around here a few months ago and they looked at me like I was an idiot, Had no idea what Pro-15 was, and that was at Napa. Go figure.

hey Joker51, you can type on Por 15 and do a search on it. Plenty of places sell it and ship it to you. It will give you a little bit of a price shock though the last time I looked. It's some great stuff, it actually neutrilizes the rust and it won't come back, but you have to pay for it. It's hard as hell also, makes a great base to paint over or you can just leave it as is.