A floorpan/trunk floor fix
may be easy - if you have good metal to weld to. Between the paint-over-rust and overall Swiss cheese of the existing metal, I wonder just how bad the rest is that you
can't see from these photos.
And for pete's sake, are we just going to ignore that the entire lower quarter and trunk dropoff is non-existent? The next quarter mile those parts make should be in a pickup truck bed, on the way to the scrap heap.
Oh, and check out the rear window edge a bit closer. Looks like a hole puttied over with Milliput in the lower left corner. The rest of the pinch welded area appears to be pockmarked steel all around the perimeter, caked in not-so-Sublime Green (try
Soylent Green), hiding the fact. This is the kind of stuff you
don't play "ignorance is bliss" with
if you've gone through the effort of replacing the pans and trunk floor.
Wierd. Takes me and my guy about a day or two to put floor and trunk in. Done two of them this past week. I don't really see the big deal?
A day or two...for two people with experience doing it before. Given the speed, I take it you're filleting - not plug welding - wherever possible. Unless you have one of those fun little tools that punches holes for plug welds in seconds
Plus, where there's a rotted quarter, there's a rotted wheelhouse - and unless someone plans on cutting half the quarter out to replace the entire thing, it's going to be a patch job that requires more time than two days.
Always smart to blast and epoxy prime the framerail channels while the trunk pan is out too - chalk up more time for that. Not to mention the taillight panel, because trunk pans generally don't rust through without the other having something to say about it!
-Kurt
