Introducing the swamp rat!

State of affairs...

If anyone has seen the montage video (if not, don't fear as this montage video contains neither training nor dance) you would have noticed the roof of the early oval being cut across the centre. This was due to the fact that the car was so badly rusted that the two ends had come apart at the bottom (where the heater channels used to tie the A & B pillars to one another), this meant the roof was deformed right throughout the centre from the twisting loads being applied over many years.
The two interesting things about this whole situation (of which the roof was just a measurable indicator) are; 1. I didn't feel guilty cutting the roof section in two. And; 2. We not only did not have to undo any body bolts to remove the rear half of the car (if you look at the video you can see the 1/4 panels sitting on the ground after the roof was cut), but when the rear section was moved the 1/4 panels started coming away from the roof/rear window and no cutting was required to separate the roof section from the rest of the body.

home at last...

Time to take stock of what we've gathered.

Video

Here is a short video montage of all the photos we took whilst removing the ovals from the paddock and preparing for transport.

Take note of the back of the grey shell dropping off the floorpan. We didn't undo ANY body bolts, it's simply rotted free from the chassis. The front half only needed the two vertical bolts into the beam to be undone before coming free.

In the beginning