Right after Christmas Tom and I had the week off for vacation so we started the disassembly of the car. We thought it was going to be a breeze just take the car apart and a little cleaning and reassembly and we're off to the La Carrera. The more we took the car apart the more rust we found. The floors on the car were pretty much gone and we needed solid floors for the roll cage so we replaced one section at a time welding both the top and bottom of the panels and we added some support onto them also. I still think Tom chilled the garage floors every time before I would lay on my back welding the bottom of the car. We spent a lot of time just rebuilding the floors of the car. All of the rebuild was done after we got out of work and many weekends. The first year if we wanted a weekend off we did it later we found out that may not have been the best idea. Taking on a project like this is not an easy job especially if you are doing all the work.
Thankfully we had a Volvo expert living by us Jim Blett who gave us more help and information than you can imagine. Jim proved to be a very big part of this project and we got to be good friends with him while working on the car.
I will try to post more later Tom will also be posting on here .
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