Plan of Action?, Bondo Floor? Options

[stoneman30hotmail]

Hello all, I'm a bit new to this. I had one of these in my 20's and and did a little stick welding fixing the hell hole.
I'm not sure how to approach this. Do I need to strip all this and go on rotisserie? Or is it feasible to cut and patch this from the top

The driver side floor is bondo (or something). I'm not sure what is holding the seat mounts. The passenger side seat mount right is about broken loose. There's also holes past the transverse strut into the battery area.

The longs seem ok from what I can see. Can I get the sill covers off without taking the fenders off? I was worried I drill out all the rivets to figure one hidden under the fender.

Any good tool recommendations for rust removal?

I was thinking maybe I can get away with with https://www.restoration-design.com/store/product/PP345BR and a https://www.restoration-design.com/store/PR...duct_Code=PP325 and the seat brakets and patch the holes.

[bbrock]

Like Mark said, only the owner can decide what to do with the car. I also agree that we need to provide honest advice on what is involved getting a car like this back on the road. I also think we need to provide an honest assessment of the possibilities. When I started my project, I got similar advice to scrap the car, I'll spend way more than it will be worth, etc. All of that was good advice but ignored my motives for doing the project. It wasn't to start driving the car as fast as possible. It was to learn new things and develop new skills bringing something back that others had written off as dead. It's the same motivation we build model cars and planes instead of just buying already assembled toys.

Anybody can buy a nice 914 if they have deep enough pockets, fewer can build one. If learning and skill building is the motivation, the labor is not even $1, in fact, it is less than $0 because the time spent working on the project is reward rather than expense. I'd much rather spend my time building or restoring things in my shop than watching grown men run a ball back and forth on a fake lawn. Why don't we charge ourselves for the time cost of doing that? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif) I get immense satisfaction showing pictures of my car when the project began to people oohing and aweing over the car and seeing their jaws drop. And yeah, I'm kind of smug about it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/shades.gif)

I don't know the OP but get the impression that getting the car to driving condition as quickly and cheaply as possible was the objective. If that is the case, I would suggest finding a different car. This is not the one for that. I have my doubts that moving forward on this is the right decision, but only they can decide. I just want to make sure they have a complete picture of proven possibilities that gets lost in the negativity. Who knows? Maybe they are one of the rare wackos who wants the challenge. Just don't say the car will not be worth what they spend fixing it up. That is proven false. Insert "probably" before the "not," and I would fully agree.