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Joe's 914 Project

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Front Trunk and Headlight Buckets

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Solid and fairly clean.  Top right corner under driver-side hinge could be scrubbed up and painted or not.  No rust, just a little dirty and not an issue.  Notice how clean the shock tower hardware appears.  Must have been under cover all those years.  

 

Some tape work and repaint:

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Airbox reinstalled, vents polished, springs painted.

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Super clean.  The pads are from a boat-deck and because they are not like the stock carpet, they won't hold water and rust into the gas tank.  A nice view of the fuel pump setup and related ground wire:

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Lots of setup work here.

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But before all of that...

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Fairly clean

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Headlight buckets are rusted.  This is a cutout from my donor car.  Can do passenger side too, they are both rusted.  I did grind-off the braise on the bottom of the tubes in the car so now it just needs the scab-in work.  Would probably mount this to the inside of the existing buckets.  I have seen pictures of what is under these, once you cut out the old and it varies from surface rust to a mess, don't know at this time.

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The headlight buckets tend to clog with leaves and debris and that water muck causes rust.  Driver's side was particularly bad.

 

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Passenger side is rusted, but not pin-holed.

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Headlight Grounds are in each corner.  Note the dirty wiring and plastic wiring connector block that were eventually cleaned-up:

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