Thanks Brian...
What Keegan is doing is exactly what I'm hoping to do, but probably not nearly as well! I'm not going to take the body off the frame or anything like that. He has a very good tutorial on his process so I will probably copy a lot of what he did. I have only welded once in my life with my wire feed arc welder and I have never fabricated anything out of metal. This could be a great learning experience or a total failure! My biggest problem is how much is actually missing. That makes it hard to fabricate new parts. We will see how far I get.
As for the trans, I might as well take the valve body out and clean it. I've had it out before, but I have never taken it apart. I would hate to put it back together and fill it with fluid, only to have it not work again and have to waste $$. I do have another valve body I could swap with it, but I don't know the condition of that one. It has been sitting for a long time in a garbage bag.
The good news is that I got some new metal for my floors! We have some industrial machines that are out of commission and the side panels appear to be about the right gauge.
Let's keep our fingers crossed on the transmission!
As a side note: Some people have suggested I get a different car. For grins I checked ebay and came across this one
1953 Cavalier. It looks like the floor was already fixed, but the rockers were bad. I was scheming a way to get it (my wife says I have too many cars already) so I was thinking of selling my 2001 Lexus ES300 that won't shift into overdrive anymore to make room. I guess it was not meant to be because I see it has been sold.
I have to keep the faith that I can get this one going! Let's all consider this a challenge!
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