N661631 body damage.
Remember, it´s been a year since I sold the car and since last summer since I last saw it. So I don´t know if anything has been done with it since then.
My intention was to patch the car up rather than to change all the sheetmetal. I had two reasons for this. First: if I made a mistake patching up a fender someone else could always change the whole fender in another restoration years later. Second: I wanted to retain as much of the original sheetmetal as possible.
I consider the car to be pretty solid but there is still rust in many places.
It seems to have been in a couple of fenderbenders over the years. The better part of the right rearfender was probably replaced before it left the USA in the seventies. By then it was painted yellow/green I have been told. Here in Sweden the wife of the first owner drove to far out in a crossing and was hit slightly on the left frontfender. It was straightened but not perfectly. The dash and surrounding area is of course rusty since the original VIN-tag is gone. The hood had hoodpins at one point, but the holes have been welded shut. Both frontfenders have rust issues behind the wheels. There is rust in the lower front area of the doorskins. The front of the roof has to be checked. Both rear wheelwells have been changed once, and there is rust in the front part of both fenders. It sounds like it needs a lot of work, but I still consider it a good project having the original engine and BE-rearend. With the car I also sold a set of five correctly dated XT-wheels and a correctly dated gooseneck radiator. I assume it goes with the car.
In the pics below taken around 1984 you can se the area on the left frontfender that was hit in the crossing. You can also see a rusthole in the frontfender behind the wheel and the rear wheelwell that had been changed.
