Here is a trick I came up with that you won't see anywhere else! After stripping off all the bolt on parts from the pan like the shifter, brake, etc I decided to tackle the tar boards. Lots of guys will just chip into it with a screw driver and...

Pedal cluster came out next. Pretty nasty under there with grease and old horse hair, but no rust or rot. No damage either. Since that was out of the way, I got the suspension off the car. Beam off and motor and trans out. No issues here either, everything came...

Some random images of the pan before it was torn down. Motor obviously came out of a later car but pretty much everything else is original and untouched. Trans is OG to the car. I think the rat turds were OG also... Finding a car this clear these days is...