Sig. Orange ‘72 Restoration : Literati914 Options

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I picked up this ‘72 locally a few years back. It was just a shell .. no doors, no trunk or frunk lids, no windshield, no bumpers, no fresh air boxes or wiper assembly, no interior (expect the crappy dash), damaged wiring harness. I even had to bring front hubs and wheels just to be able to move it! The guy said he had parts somewhere but I was never able to get any if them.

The floors were Swiss cheese (see the before pics) worse than I’ve seen on a car that I’d consider a good rebuild candidate tbh. PO used bondo to fill the holes, I kid you not. The back part of the rear trunk was terrible - had been patched with fiberglass cloth that water had gotten under. Then everything covered in a bedliner product that was only sticking in about 80% of it’s coverage, including wheel wells.

The body itself was in pretty good shape.. the shell had even been recently painted (original Signal Orange), but done poorly, there is literally dried clear dripping at the wheel well edges. There are also some bubbles forming in a few spots under the paint that will now need to be addressed.

Over the last few years I’ve sourced most of the missing parts (that cheap parts car is paying for itself in this one). I picked up a set of unused floors from a member here a couple years ago too.. as well as ordered other needed sheetmetal items for it. So I’m now ready to start restoration on this one. I like having a thread showing the process and the before/after but admit I’m not always the best at getting it all documented. Here’s the car as it sat a couple weeks ago (with random doors, roof, etc).

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I then salvaged the original heat shield: