Late 2009 i purchased this 1973 KE20 Corolla for $400 as running project thru a friend.
It was about as rough as this image quality in 2009, The car had had some questionable body repairs through out the 70's / 80's including in parts having 10mm more than required bodyfiller in one of the rear quarters giving it a sort of overfender look. A friend removed all the filler and panel beat it back to normal then i i started on the bodywork myself.
Painted the car in my parents unfinished garage with dirt floor as the concrete hadnt been poored yet, turned out ok considering.
Wet sanded and polished the entire car
I'll post the rest later as i was having issues with uploading the whole build.
Late last year I went and sourced replacement panels off a friend
Unsurprisingly there was damage hiding under the paint / filler, finding good 50+ yr old panels ain’t easy.
Another friend does metal work so had him straighten things out for me & weld some unneeded holes up
Starting in the final prep & hopefully have it painted in the next month or so.
Picked up some drip rail trims when getting the panels. They break up the orange a little, this car never came with higher spec trims it was a base L model that doesn’t even have a cigarette lighter or radio.