This winter I took it into the warm and cosy workshop to begin restoring it to it's former glory. It's been "restored" before by someone that were in somewhat of a hurry. One thing that alerted me something was not quite OK was that the trunk lid was heavy as a Chevy of the same age! And I found the reason: lots of bondo, the rust was still there just with a new skin on top. Oh well... anyway he saved the car from the crusher. At least that's some comfort when finding such half-azzed work.
This is how the trunk frame looks:
As I could not find a new bootlid anywhere I made new pieces to weld in replacing the rotten areas.
Here the first part is welded in:
