45 years of undercarriage gunk puts up a tough fight! But after hours or scraping, degreasing and more scraping, I have most of it clean enough to safely handle.

I should have been doing most of this while the car was in for paint, but other projects too priority. You know how that goes. Anyway, here's what I'm working with:

The front subframe was bent pretty good on the passenger side. Looks like a curb or rock hit it. Nothing major and a couple hammer taps straighted it right up.

I was puzzeled to find the front control arms had the ball joints welded or riveted to it. I cannot remove them. New control arms have been ordered and none of them have perminently attached ball joints. Was this a thing?

All new steering hardware is on hand as are new poly bushings. Contemplating bigger brakes, but since this will won't ever see any track time, I think these stock disks are fine.

Of course everything down to the hardware will be new.

Before the rebuild started, I'd already installed new shocks and upgraded the swaybars. I'll keep them, but am contemplating having them powder coated to match the body. 

As with the front subframe, new poly bushings will be replacing all of the old rubber. The axels I think I'll buy new, but will look into seeing if they can be rebuilt too.

I'm working on the rear dif which will just get a refresh.

Drum brakes are getting changed out with an Ireland Engineering disk brake kit.

The subframes, trailing arms, control arms etc will get powdercoated.

I really like what others have done like oh2ryan and Joysterm and others in this regard. Gloss black or the grey.

It's slow going. Trying to do a little every day. 

Good times!