About to tackle my rusty floor

Wow. My dad used to say, when confronted with such: "there's nothing there to weld anything to." 

Then he'd usually crack on anyway.

For a Connecticut car (dreaded east coast rust belt) that car actually looks good.  At least you have sturdy center tunnel and longitudinals to go by.  You keep working on rusty cars and you're going to need a rotisserie.

New day

Tulio, what do you, usually do when  you replaced the rocker panels on that 2002?  Was there much rust treatment done to it?  Just wondering, love your work. 

Nice that the 356 floor is one single piece side to side --- until it rusts and you end up replacing the entire piece.  I had '62 356B Karmann Knotchback.  I repaired driver's floor with the stop sign that someone hit at end of Whipple Dr in Hampton VA - with  pop rivets.  Wish I had known then today's value of that car!  Wasn't worthwhile fixing them properly back then.

Ain't that the truth...

ashcreek posted:

New day

I'm not sure why my mind works the way it does. As soon as I read, "New Day", from Tulio I thought of this song:

As far as loving my job, when laying on me back grinding a rusty floor pan out,

I can’t honestly say I like it at all. But when we are painting it, all the panels 

fit, no fisheyes in the paint, I do like it. To get the rockers off the 2002, you

have to drill out all the factory spot welds. It’s no fun. Even after you drill out

every weld you see, the damn panel still won’t move. Usually by the end, a hammer

and chisel are the answer.

Wolfgang, the stop sign floor repair seems to be very popular. I had it on one of

my cars too. I also had a notch back around 1970. Nobody wanted them. Who knew?

One thing i’m not sure everybody knows is, I have a regular body shop too. It’s 

a lot of fun compared to fixing rust. New cars are amazing. I’m part of the old 

world. I can’t even how to work the radio on some of these cars. Fixing new

stuff is just a matter of ordering all the parts you need, put it together, paint it,

get paid, and roll another one in. That’s how you make money. When you fix this

old stuff, you end up working for about $1 an hour.

 

ashcreek posted:

One thing i’m not sure everybody knows is, I have a regular body shop too. It’s 

a lot of fun compared to fixing rust. New cars are amazing. I’m part of the old 

world. I can’t even how to work the radio on some of these cars. Fixing new

stuff is just a matter of ordering all the parts you need, put it together, paint it,

get paid, and roll another one in. That’s how you make money. When you fix this

old stuff, you end up working for about $1 an hour.

 

Not if you're John Willhoit. You need to charge more. LOL

There is always a niche market guy who hit all the balls correctly and got to the top but that market might be very small or exclusive.  I have to say good work will make you stand up in front of kings.  

More progress. Dirty work.

I love it when I grind and chisel out that rotten old panel only to find...more rusty junk behind it. 

You, sir, are a prince. Keep the faith.

Plugging along.

Hi, I can’t seem to be able to sign in again. I just wanted to send a couple of

pictures of my floor job.

Tullio

Sent from my iPad

> On Feb 17, 2019, at 10:43 AM, SpeedsterOwners.com <**************> wrote:
>
>

Figured it out

You're a braver man than I am.  Hat's off to you!

WOW, that second picture with the heat pipe I think shows just how much the early P 356 cars were prone to be rust carriers.  I remember mine and the floor in the end needed replacing as well. No fun. 

And I thought the British cars that I used to restore were rusty... 

Bob I was on an MG-TD site that showed how to mod the steering to a VW box to save yourself from losing control.  

I mean the original parts were so thin in the picts shown and dangerous to say the least.     ... Sure glad I stayed away from the Brit cars... cool looking but no thanks.

Actually it's the TC that can benefit from a Bug steering box. The TD's had rack & pinion. That was 1949.