The grail car (the 427 2+2 four speed convertible F41 car) inches along at a snail's pace, but there's one body guy working on it round the clock, I think!

Looks like it'll be about 600 hours of labor into the body before primer, just in metal.  And body guys don't work for free, you can assume $100 an hour, so this isn't for the feint of heart or wallet.

If you saw the car before you know it was Swiss cheese, and I'm going for high end restoration of a rare care, which means cutting out a lot of "previous work" as well, not just rust, because this car has been "restored" at least twice in the past already:

So you make new patches with the right shapes formed in:

Here's a random picture off them working in the trunk.  This is an example where you can see that the Impala stampings are too short, and they need to butt-weld additional sections on the end to make it a "Canadian Pontiac" trunk:

It's just everywhere you turn, every surface needs to be repaired.  Here's the taillight, looks like someone stick-welded in here at some point at well!

Good thing I believe this to be a one-of-one car, because if it was a one-of-two, the other one would be in better shape!

Cheers,

Dave