Lots of undercoating and rust paint today. Punched some holes in the body today notably on the front driver's door. Will weld them up and seam seal them and undercoat the door insides. Also cut some major sheet metal out of the rear forward arch. BIG chunks. Again, sealed it up, will weld some new metal in tomorrow and use my shaping anvil to make the metal the right curve.

Did my best today to remove the tank and the locking fuel cap I had no key for. Go the cap off by destroying it and it's not a big deal, new caps from the UK are $20 shipped. Buy it once - forget. The tank and the underside is pretty scabby back there. the impact did not want to take off the tank. Will have to grind off the bolts holding it on. I'll repaint the tank and get it pretty tomorrow between waiting for paint and bondo to dry.

Right now I'm sort of flitting about the car working on one part then jumping to another. Keeping it fresh and not trying to get burned out slogging away on one task. Or like I said, waiting for something to dry in this cold weather I can move on to something else.

I look over at my Merkur during all this and think I sort of half assed her but there was so much fabrication involved on the XR along with custom crap that this is a welcome change to just remove, paint reinstall. Next time I'm at a car show and some guy with a complete resto makes out like he's car god I'll chuckle. I'll move on to the next guy that's done a lot of custom work and appreciate it more.

Don't be fooled, this is hard work but the custom crap is a thing of the past for now. Remove, paint, drop off at the platers, restore, reinstall is more rewarding for this car.

No pics today, dropped my Canon 1Ds Mk.II off the roof of the 3 door today and snapped my 17-40 clean off. Pissed!