Introducing Project THANKS MOM!

[KUSI]

So think back to 1993. What were you doing? What was popular? Heck, I can't really remember. I just know that by that time my beloved 80s hair metal was all but dying out because of Nirvana. BOO! But this also was the time I finally got some real work done on my car that would help save it from the rust demons. The work was completed by E&V Repair Clinic. This place was not a clinic at all. It was a guys two car garage on the side of the "clinic". It was so crammed full of stuff sometimes that he barely had room to work or walk around the car. But after a few thousand dollars in sheet metal and a few thousand dollars in labor and materials the work got done in a six month span.

Rear quarters & rear tail pan all being cut out. I can remember him telling me to not touch the car at this point.





Rear quarters & rear tail pan replaced. The car shouldn't collapse on itself now. Nice!





Floor boards cut out and replaced. There definitely was not as much sheetmetal to chose from in the catalogs back then as there is now. However, these complete floor pans were just released that year. Doing it all over now someone would probably replace the complete floor.





Trunk pan cut out and replaced, the swiss cheese dash panel cut out and replaced, and finally quite a bit of effort was spent to repair both window channels. Doing this portion over now I would probably just replace the whole roof.





After all the sheetmetal repair was complete the body was taken down to bare metal and then shot with a protective coat of dark gray epoxy primer. This would end up being my paint job for quite some time. Hey, it looked good for 5 minutes if you wet it. And check out that stance on the back. Nothing said cool like fully loaded air shocks. This feature also helped make the front drum brakes nearly non-functional. Cool first, safety second.