Hi guys... Thanks for the input, all good.. as usual..

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It's a Colorado/NM car, very little rust overall. We drilled two inspection holes from the top.. on both sides... and it looks good inside... some surface rust we'll take care of.. The crack was invisible until they sanded that area down. When we cut the fender rust out, it was pretty localized to that area...and we treated the metal underneath.. My body guy Ben hopefully took a few pic's... They are welding up those fenders today. And... no similar crack on the other side.. So maybe like Ed, we're good to go.. Welder will clean up that one crack and finish up.
Car seems to be original black... Mostly original paint. The car took a hit on the right side sometime ago before me. Bad putty job on the door that we'll clean up. Engine and trunk black original too. There was a coat of 'blue' paint in the layers that seems to be a filler or primer coat..
SO... A full coat of epoxy primer will cover the car, Was tempted to weld and cover side lights and such like I did on the 74 GTV.. but time and $ and the goal of the project is to have a good basic reliable and attractive driver with this one. The body work went from repairing the bloody nose to...'what the hell'... lets go over the car and fix the small dings."
Keeping a flexible budget of 4-5K for everything and mostly my labor/knuckles on the mechanicals. I'll show that work later hopefully. I'm doing a 77 Spider in parallel... a clear sign of mental illness.... but fun to go back and forth with each car at different stages.
thanks again for the input. I enjoy all of the comments and help. I think this forum was the original Facebook.... AlfaBook... certainly most of the content is much more revelant than FB.... )
Pic's are the day I bought it and a week later of just cleaning it up.