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I picked this tired old Road Runner up from a guy in Virginia. It had been sitting for quite some time, and the crap building up in the cowl and other areas had taken it's toll. It's originally a B5 blue with B5 interior column shift bench seat car. The driver's front frame rail is history. There is almost more missing than is left. Under the battery tray (or where the tray used to be) is gone, behind the control arms on both the inside and the outside has large holes, and then after the rail tucks below the floor, it's completely open along the bottom.
Out back, the driver's side has a number of holes along the bottom as well as the sides for the last 12" of the rail. The passenger side rear was easy to inspect since you could see most of it through the area were the trunk floor used to be. It's full of crap, and I'm sure I could find holes there if I tried. Speaking of the trunk floor, it had a lot in common with the driver's front frame rail - almost missing more than was still there.
The really sad part about this is that it came with the numbers matching motor and trans, as well as the broadcast sheet. It was just too far gone to save.
The Damage
Here's the rot where the Passenger A-pillar meets the cowl. Driver's side was just as bad. The whole cowl was rotted to the point there were holes big enough to drop tools clear through into the car. |
Driver's front frame rail. It's just as bad or worse behind the shock tower. |
More of the driver's front frame rail, from the bottom. You could crush it with your fingers. |
The "good" (driver) side of the trunk floor. |
The bad (passenger) side of the trunk floor. See that frame rail? Also note the complete lack of the trunk extension on this side. |
Parting it out
Getting started. Hood is about the only thing gone. |
Front clip and the doors are stacked to the side. |
So much for the inteior. My streak is still alive, I've yet to NOT break a windshied while pulling it. |
A few bolts, and the entire front suspension rolls out from under the car. |
Rear suspension gone, decklid gone, exhaust sitting on the floor. All that's left is pretty much just the unibody. |
Topless! We cut high on the C-pillars, but still below the factory seam. We were trying to save the roof as well as the quarters. |
Another shot of the car sans roof. |
Passenger quarter is gone. We took the quarter with wheelhouse and the ENTIRE rocker. |
Both quarters gone, just about done. |
The only good framerail was the passenger front. So in the theme of waste not, want not, we saved it and the inner fender. |
Me surveying my handywork. That little cart sure came in handy. |
1 bird, quartered |
Not much left as scrap. |
Barely a pickup load of rotten floorboards and framerails. |
The final resting place. Rest in pieces (literally). |