69 Impala SS convertible

[JustJohn]

This is hard. Passenger side is mostly complete with some lessons learned about welding. The biggest one is patience, followed by making sure you cut back enough metal, followed by don't let the edge of the flap disk nick your knuckles.
I pulled out an old sheet metal repair to put real pans back in and documented the factory manual shift tunnel. It is the original body color and has factory seam sealer. Not sure how or why it got mangled somewhere along the way. I wasn't originally going to deal with it this go-round but decided to drill the spot welds and repair the tunnel shift hump mount as well. This is fast spiraling into "well at this point no big deal to also pull the engine to take care of oil leaks." Feel like I will be living in the garage until June getting this thing sorted for the road trip.
On the upside, the only burn I have is not from welding, but the corn bread pan the other night.