OK I know you guys hate pictures, so I'll annoy you with some more.
Today I chiselled off some more bondo. I have put it in a plastic bag. Even if I did'nt do this until I realized it may be Guinnes book stuff, it's quite a bit. I'll save that for the end of the post so you can guess.
Here's pictures of the front:
Look closely and you will notice it looks like it got a facelift. The grille is quite vertical, almost sloping backwards. And the nose is too high.
In this last picture you can just see the bondo bag on the floor. It weighs 4.5Kg so far! And the door is still not done. Then I have the other side to do. My estimate is I'll reach 15Kg in bondo and paint. Then there is the double panels. So the car will be "allegrita" when back on the road. At least compared to what it was. I'll also scrape off most of the underbody goop and only put back a sparse layer. Stereo + speakers are out for good (what on earth was it doing in this car anyway.)
My buddy who owns the shop where the car lives now looked at the nose piece after I removed more bondo than on the pictures. He realized that nose is probably ending up in his dumpster and did not question whether I was giving up. He just mumbled something about there being a lot of metalshaping training in that car. At least no rust, and welding rust is the worst job imaginable.