donkeylips
Well-known member
Here are some pictures:
The body on this car is otherwise in great shape. It has no rust (the rusty gusset plate, brake booster, and rear motor mount are from other cars).
I'm debating whether or not to keep it. I prefer my cars have close to perfect bodies and I'm wondering if this can be made to be close to perfect again.
It had this damage when I got the car, and doesn't seem to have too much of an effect on anything. The radiator core support has a pretty big dent. It looks like somebody ran over something to cause damage to both areas.
Can a body shop tell me if the car is otherwise straight, or if it's tweaked?
Say hypothetically that the car was worth some money due to its rarity. How much would this hurt the value (before or after a repair). Can it be repaired, how much will it cost, and how obvious will it be that it was repaired?
What would you do in this situation?
Also, I have a spare rad. core support that has been cut off of a galant vr4, but I don't have the frame rail section that it needs (had I known when I cut up 497/2000...). Is this the same on a base model Galant? We have a few of them in a local yard.



The body on this car is otherwise in great shape. It has no rust (the rusty gusset plate, brake booster, and rear motor mount are from other cars).
I'm debating whether or not to keep it. I prefer my cars have close to perfect bodies and I'm wondering if this can be made to be close to perfect again.
It had this damage when I got the car, and doesn't seem to have too much of an effect on anything. The radiator core support has a pretty big dent. It looks like somebody ran over something to cause damage to both areas.
Can a body shop tell me if the car is otherwise straight, or if it's tweaked?
Say hypothetically that the car was worth some money due to its rarity. How much would this hurt the value (before or after a repair). Can it be repaired, how much will it cost, and how obvious will it be that it was repaired?
What would you do in this situation?
Also, I have a spare rad. core support that has been cut off of a galant vr4, but I don't have the frame rail section that it needs (had I known when I cut up 497/2000...). Is this the same on a base model Galant? We have a few of them in a local yard.