I have a 1967 Mercury Cougar; I'll attach pictures here as they're essential in the consensus I'm interested in. The car runs and drives. I redid brakes, replaced the carb. It's got a beefy 302; c4 and 8.5" rear end. Was sitting for 20+ years at the farm before I decided to revive it.
The concern now is the floor is quite rotten, rusted and needs some serious frame rail and floor pan work. From what I've seen online etc, it doesn't seem impossible, but definitely something I've never done before.
I keep saying to myself, if I don't do it, someone else will. I'll post some pictures of the underside and general shape of the car.
I'm interested in your thoughts on if it's worth proceeding any further or selling it and moving on to something else.
Thanks in advance!
Floor pans are one of those areas where, well, if you use pop rivets and Liquid Nails to install a cookie sheet, who's going to notice? And you should have no problem finding real replacement kits and welding them in with a cheap MIG; the rivets were a joking worst case.
Stressed portions are a bigger concern but still probably doable - post more pics there.
Ultimately it's just metal.
Depends on you want to get it all replaced properly.
My 914 is on the bad side for a 914 but with sweat and blood I can replace the metal good enough to have a fun driver reasonably OK looker.
That's actually considered structure on that car, a bit more than just a floorpan. You have the "rail," and in that era, you might have also had some triangular panels (called torque boxes) that connected the rail to near the rockers. If the rockers are still good, you might have somewhere to begin. With decent rockers and A and B pillar areas, you can kind of just cut out the middle and start over . . .
I junked my 1968 Cougar because of that sort of rust damage.
I regret that decision. Buy a welder, learn to stick metal together. What do you have to lose?
