And now the real ugly...

I got around to hacking the rotten tank out last year... it was reeking up the interior. I literally squashed it together with my hands and rolled it up to squeeze through the straps it was so spongy. The sender was solid rust. Both beyond gone, but i did save the straps, and found some nice solid rails under the flaky floor. The frame is perfect, front to back in this car. AND... another stunning bonus... NO FACTORY UNDERCOAT! So nothing to scrape. The last pic was what i got the day i bought it in 1999... so really, a decade and a half ov sitting on concrete in the Pacific Northwest didn't hit it all that hard...