Removing the fenders

Removing the fender panels was much harder than I anticipated since 1 out of every bolt i had to take out was so rusted it required me to cut of off.  I owe my neighbor Mike a huge thank you for the diamond blade cutter he lent me for this process.  Damn fine tool.

Removing the Front Panel

The front of the car was a much larger mess than this picture suggest.  The car had been in an accident and whoever "fixed" the car after the event was extremely generous in the use of puddy.  Instead of fixing hardly any of the metal they just reshaped it and painted over it.  Raul, removed all of this and did an excellent job restoring the orginal shape of the car and restoring it.  Note the extemsive wrinkling of the right hand side tub fender.

The starting point

The starting point. I had the TR shipped out from Virginia Beach a couple years ago and it sat in my garage while I saved up the money for the restoration and to have built in shelves installed. I used our old shelving to store the parts as I took the car apart.