At last the sheet metal jobs have started!

The Chassis is turned on its side to remove and replace the damaged parts...

The damaged parts are carefully removed...

The Sheet metal doctor; Mr Olvenmo is methodically going through every inch of the chassis...

As seen the metal inside the chassis is completely naked, there is no mystery why the DSes are infamous for rusting!

This is the way they look after 19750 km in less than a year on the roads, followed by 50 years in a garage.

For the first time we can now see the full extent of Mr Tore Gidlunds accident in december 1958 (thet so ironically came to preserve the car for today) and the following primitive reparations by Mr Lindbloms neighbor in 1959.

The right hand sill will not exactly win any beauty contents... it will now be replaced by original New Old Stock parts.

The floor panel was brutally disformed, both by the accident and by the so called reparation.

A section of the original right sill was for some reason welded across the floor under the crossbeam for the front seats. 

A brand new floor will now be hand made by Mr. Olvenmo.

(A NOS floor is not to be found on this planet and the available reproduction parts does not impress the sheet metal doctor. )