collected shell today and took it to my dads workplace to steam clean it before starting bodywork. came up pretty good overall.
inside the car



underneath. needs degreaser but started raining heavily so will do the rest when dry. steam cleaner got a lot off already.





engine bay and tunnel.


finally the worse bit of shell. the rust around passenger side light. the pics show the rot infront of headlight surround but from behind it isn't too bad.


should be able to remove headlight surround, cut out the rot and reweld a strip in. around 75mm max width and flat so should be able to do a pretty good job on it. new headlight surround and job sorted.
thanks for all comments and encouragement from you all.