As mentioned, the hood, grill and one fender are done.
During the teardown process in the beginning, I found that the motor was junk, the trans and t-case needed rebuilding, one of the diffs needed gears, couldn't source original power steering pump brackets, the list of problems was huge and seemed like more trouble than it was worth. The only item on the whole chassis that did not need to be rebuilt was the rear diff, it was in excellent shape. Everything else is new or rebuilt...everything.
So when it came time to restore the body, I really got lucky. Not a lot of rust and very straight panels with only minor mods over the years. Sure there were times when I wanted to track down the person who hacked into the body and hack into him, but in all, the reversal of the hacks was not very time consuming.
You all saw the body tub and how it came out, well, here are the hood and other bits, that required very little. Most of the body filler you do see on the hood could have been left off, but I was looking for a perfect surface where it made sense. In other words, the body panels that show original folds or spot welds, I wanted to leave alone, but the flat sections I wanted as straight as possible.
Here are some pics, with more to follow during the week.
