So, what if I DIDN'T HAVE TO REBUILD THE JEEP FROM THE FUCKING GROUND UP??? We'll never know because that's exactly what needs to be done - since pretty much the entire floor is rusted through!!!! In a word: AWESOME. So we start working on the Jeep and decide that in order to truly build an indestructible killing machine, structural integrity is key - so we start taking up the carpet in order to weld a nice steel bar internal roll cage - and discover that the carpet is the only thing holding the floor together in several places, on both sides of the front seats - further exploration yields the same results. "Fucking rednecks are laughing about this," I keep thinking to myself. Sheet metal is expensive as hell, about $20 for a 2x2ft piece. At that rate it'll cost about $100 just for the front floor... Not happening.
This is what most of the "floor" looked like right after the carpet was pulled up.
After a lot of hammering, cutting and grinding, we found that the only solid metal on the fucking thing was the frame - after cleaning up and removing all the rusted, frail metal - there was more ground visible than floor by far! In the end I said "Fuck it!" and stripped the entire interior, including the side molding. After all, tanks don't have carpet!
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