"Shade tree restorer" at work

Here's more from the "shade tree restorer" cover up. Good metal over bad metal....I hope the PO didn't pay for this! 

Floors

Ok...the PO had a "shade tree restore" who welded a flat piece of sheet metal over the original pan on the driver rear floor....unimaginable! Well, grinded the spot welds down and poped it out. The floor underneath definately needs changing except this time its going to be done right. 

Removing brake lines

Engine out!

Bought this engine adapter from an ALFABB member; really nice!

Got up early and lifted the engine. 

Playing around...can't wait to drive this car!

Progress

Doors off and finally I was able to remove the wire-harness cutting only one wire...the wire going to the roof. A thing of beauty;

Rust-b-gone!

I was off from work yesterday and tested Rust-B-Gone and this thing works beautifully. I've been researching and testing just about every product out there but this stuff really works. I found it in a Hot Rod magazine article where they talk about how great it is. I applied it on half the left rear quarter panel. In minutes the rust started to fade...in half an hour the rust was gone. I kept it really wet sort of painting it with a small roller. It didn't take it to bear metal, but the old blue paint and primer came off easily. I came back with my grinder and a grinding disk and done. It made it so easy to get to the bare metal, but having applied this solution kept the process nice fast and clean. I'm working a small one car garage and dust control is a must. Highly recommended. BTW; I'm not affiliated to this company in any way, but I appreciate service and products that do what they say it does. 

Steering wheel off!

Pulling the steering wheel turned out to be a pain!! I tried to pull it with a harmonic balancer using the two threaded bolts and it didn't work. It stripped the thread and lightly bent the top ring. Got this puller which I had to strip down and filed the ends with my grinder to fit into the three slots on the steering wheel. This thing snapped hard...but it's out:

Curiosity!

I decided to open up the cam cover and take a look;

Deconstruction continues