In rust we trust...

Only small update, with no pictures. It was too cold and damp to work in garage for longer period of time, so major update is rust cleaning from the window frame, and trunk. Everything except rear driver side corner (which will be left at this state for a while) is more or less cleaned and covered with anti rust epoxy. That should keep the rust and metal in some stable state for at least few years, but I hope to repaint damaged areas sooner ;).

Just for stats - after cleaning the surface rust, found four new holes in the bodywork. Not so good :(. Good thing about them, that all of them are (still) small enough - even screwdriver is not able to fit throuh (yet).

The BOX

This weekend was a bit weird due to national holidays, so it turned so, that I spent only one day in the garage. Building the BOX :).

Uninstalling windows was only half of the job - next step was to store them safely in the basement. But how? 11 meters of straight pine plank were purchased, and yet another sacrifice for engineering hunger was build (yes, all 11 meters went there):And gues what? Made a flaw in design, so the glass refused to fit.
That was some kind of stress with suction tool made last weekend, because it was too weak to hold whole weight of the windshield... After several tries, and a lot of sweat (+3C in garage BTW), all the glasses were safely put to basement. But at the price. Now I feel pain every muscle in my body. Need to ask someone to help next time...

Uninstalling windows

Main task this weekend was to remove all windows (requirement for adding roll-cage). Because I'm with expierence of cracking windshield (2 ones in the past) - support for the winshield needed to be designed. After some of material searching in local hardware shop I came up with this:It proved to be bad design, because due to funky windshield profile - suction cups were unable to grip correctly. After some head scratching and searching local hardware shop - some weird design was created. It looks strange - but works just fine. I have managed to lift windshield without cracking it (later).So, asked some friend to help, and started to pull windows out. Side windows first, back window at last. After few hours pulling rope, and soaking everything with WD40 - we were done :). Tired, but all windows intact (some scratches on sealing rubber, but minor ones):Rare ocasion to look at the car from the inside and outside same time:After taking last side window, it became obvious, that few bubles of rust - like always were only top of the iceberg. Pictures are not very clear, but tell the story:
No penetrating rust, so after cleaning paint and putty - things looked like not so bad, not so good - will need few weekends to sort this out, but in summer, when it's warm and dry enough to work with paint:
And the winshield was pulled out with single screwdriver (came suprisingly easy), because it was replaced in summer, so the sealing grease was still greasing the rubber, and no 20 year old dust and glue in between glass and body.

Cold winter morning

Actually not so cold, but windy, so it was too chilly to work outside. You can see by unsatisfied look of the car (who on the earth would like to change warm garage to cold morning?)
Managed to take few pictures from the inside. Major changes - no sound insulation on the transmission tunnel:

Rust goes on recon :)

Basically stripping has finished today. Now what's left - is windows. After that - no way back...