Sedes body dropped w114

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My son Jake trying to weld this turd together

Much respect from another student welder. Clean welds and nice notch.

[Jimfred]

WARNING PUREST TURN AWAY NOW
Now it's time to violate the w114,any parts we couldn't sell went to the scrap yard for more money to put back into the project
We're trying to keep total cost under 5000 including w114 and S10
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Gutted

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All the body lifting was done with a engine hoist,a lift would of made all of this a lot easier but this shows how much you can accomplish in a garage working just on the weekends

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Once the floor pan was cut away there was a lot of rust to fix

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We had a local sheet metal shop break some 16 gauge to re support the outer rocker boxes
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Once we put the w114 body on the S10 floor pan the real nightmare began

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Tucking nuts

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We had to do a lot of cutting to get my daughters old 19x9.5 m3 wheels to fit