That Ranchero must have lots of Sentimental value for somebody...
Husband and wife brought it to me, super nice people. It was the wife's father's car. He ordered it new, she drove it in high school.
As you can see, a paint job wasn't going to make this car OK to drive. It simply wasn't safe, it will be though. I guarantee this forward structure is stronger now than it was from the factory. As I'm building my way out of these structural boxes, I'm closing access holes that were necessary for factory tooling access for resistance welds. Nothing is obviously beefed up when it's all closed up, its fairly discrete, subtle improvements that are worth doing when I've got it cut apart.
