My rusted longs, experts chime in..., rusted longs Options

[mramber]

Hey all, I'm one year into owning my 73. I knew it had some rust, but I spent my first summer of ownership in denial so that I could focus on enjoying driving the car. Now that spring is approaching, I decided to go in and see just how bad things are. My first question is that my car doesn't have jack points, I assume that the po removed them. Second is the recommended repair approach. Both longs are solid from the rear until they get to the jack point area, then they are solid again up to the front. The passenger side also has rust at the very front. I'm thinking I can clean things up and weld in the Brad Mayeur kit. Thoughts? Comments?

[mepstein]

First step is to look and read all the restoration threads. That will take a couple hours and is a great education. Then you can decide how you want to adress this rust and the additional rust you will find as you start digging in to the repair. The engman panel and ones like it are to stiffen a car, not to band aid over needed rust repair. Good luck and welcome to the madness.