As old cars tend to, the brake master and brake proportional valve have leaked at some point in their life. Unfortunately, brake fluid eats through the paint quite easily, so what tends to happen is it takes the surrounding areas back to bare metal, and once it tries up the metal then rusts. Below you'll see the section the behind the proportional valve and what has happened.

It was a matter of removing all the seam sealant, then wire brush & abrasive pad back the surface rust. As I could see it went under the layer of metal I started to peel back the outer layer to try remove as much surface rust as I could from behind it.

With all the main part of the rust removed I was able to apply rust convert until I recide what to do. I would like to replace this whole part, probably would have been smart to take it from the other scrap wagon before it was scrapped.. Might have to look into recreating this piece in the future, or whether the hatch or sedan has the same piece.

Peeling back the various layers on the drivers side crowl revealed how deep the rust went. We really didn't want to have to sculpture this section in sheet metal as it looks very tricky.

As I was working on the shock tower section, dad started working on fabbing a piece to try and fill this gap, try a few different designs as he went. You can see where we hit down the front edge to try fill that gap but it's just playing hard to get. Might have to look into removing a big chunck of this area in the future.

Some progress on the top section for the left side of the crowl as well, continuing on from the progress the other day. I think the piece turned out great, you can see from the section photo some work is still required to pull out these curves to match the factory crowl, especially as the wind screen sits against here.

Such a great feeling seeing this final piece sitting in there nicely with the hinge bolted to the chassis since our repairs underneath it.

Right section:

A little bonus find for y'all, I noticed on the back of the bumper theres some text on the fins. guessing this was used for various spec'd wagons for on the product line.

Leaving this here as a reference for the orientation of the brake hard lines in the cabin