Today I turned the frame upside down to deal with the last of the rivets drilling them out or punching them thru this has left a lot of holes that will be plugged with weld and dressed later before painting.
The biggest surprise of the day is that the tubes that make up the floor of the frame have only been welded from the top with all the bottoms of the joints left unwelded, I guess they just forgot to flip it over to finish them when the frame was first built, none of the joints have fatigued or broken over the years and there is very little flex, the photos show the gaps, it will all be welded up when the rest of the frame is done. I think I might be making it sound like the frame is poorly built but I think for a home built of that era it is suprisingly strong and has lasted well. everything from the firewall back will stay the same except for adding a few tubes to support the new belly pan under the drivers feet.
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