Here's a few pictures of what it looked like before the substructure was put in
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I removed the floor skin from a pickup box and trimmed it to fit inside the panel
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A series of holes were drilled in all the low spots of the ribbed floor to plug weld to the 4 cross members of the square tubed subframe

 

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Using the wheel tubs from the pickups box I widened them 2" and also built a curtain piece to close off the wheel well opening of the panel

 

Nice job for a first build John.

Your going to make me finally take pictures of my panel, aren't you?

 

huh huh....lol

 

LOL. I put the 312 in it, ran it around the block, parked it, covered it, and it's been like that for 2 years

 

Cool thread John.

 

Anxiously awaiting more, John!!!

 

My wife has been busy resizing pictures so I can post them but there are not in order so I'm trying to figure out what I did when, so things might not be in the correct order simply because my memory needs recharging,lol

 

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Rocker panels needed to be changed out on both sides as well as the lower portions of the front and rear door jam posts

 

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Front right floor pan and part of the toe board also needed replacing.

 

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Both front side cowl patch panels were replaced

 

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Then I started work to the outside body parts which made me quite nervous because I never did this before.
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Cut out the ugly mess
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and welded in the first ever patch panel I made from 18 gauge.

 

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Then it was time to really try and make a mess of things and repairing parts that could not be bought, I had to use pieces from some rear pickup fenders I had

 

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Some more of my ugly patch work.