The right door, had filler and has a shallow dent in the middle of the panel

The left door, had loads of filler and damage

Also the trunk and bonnet are almost finished, finally some parts without damage

Sanding the car is making progress, but found damages below the filler.

On the nose in the area below the emblem buckled and dented, pretty bad so I got an replacement part

The right side

So mostly banged up metal, no rust. There is some rust at the bottom corner of the aft fenders in front of the rear wheels so this will probably mean some cutting and replacing panels.

And above the rear wheels

Damages at the right front fender

A poorly repaired hole in the door sill

Sanding away 6 layers of paint

More surprises

Damage on the the front of the fender

Some damage at the rear upper wing

The rear looks pretty OK, just some minor dents

All in all I’m feeling not so lucky. On the other hand, it’s a 48 year old car so it had to have some hidden damages. As I said most damages do not have rust, but they have to be attended to.

I came across this advertisement of Volvo, pretty funny advertising by Volvo.