Thanks guys, I have considered selling it on as it is or breaking it for parts.
Problem is I am too much of a perfectionist and even somthing small like painting the inside of the doors was a mission, and they have been back down to bare metal three times, first time the spray gun blew a filter and spat water all over the doors on the last coat, then from thier I had a couple of paint reactions ect.
But yea I will keep on going with it.

Famous last words

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Don't give up, just keep working at it. Soon enough it will be done and you'll enjoy driving it.

you can do it, keep working

the wheel arches will test your skills,

The roof has been alot of hard work lots of filling & sanding but I think I have it sorted now :)

The thing that i realise now days is, A: Yes you can cut ya losses and find another good ute shell but you would need to spend good money on one or get one that needs the bare minimum rust repairs for a bit cheaper, or B: spend the money you would spend, actually more than likely less on repairing the one you have and learn a lot along the way. We had one that looked like it had spent its life in a 4 foot puddle of muddy salt water and i replaced heaps of metal, bordering on whole ute. Then one came along cheap 1 hours drive away, not perfect 85% solid for 1500 with rego and a bonnet worth $900 on it so i grabbed it and sold the bonnet but that was a one off, especially now days. The thing that I found was off-putting was the amount of hours i spent and seemed to be getting nowhere but you may waste many hours/days trying to find another good one which could be better spent on the one you have. It's a hard call and ultimately its your call. The time i offered to help you with it was voluntary, and we were happy with fuel and food as payment.

Hey guys I could do with some help and ideas on a dilema I am having with my ute.
The story goes I swapped this ute for a perfectly good sports motorbike which was in mint condition and mechanically perfect. I would of valued my bike at around 5 grand easily.
My mistake was being impatient and I got it into my head that I really wanted to swap it for a old school car as I needed a car for transport and wanted a older car with caracter when this ute come up I snapped it up real quick and unfortunatly I put to much trust in the person that I brought it off that had owned it for the last 10 years that it was in the condition that he advertised in.

Me being a newb to cars really didant know where to look and what to look for, so I kind of ripped myself off, and now all I feel that all I have to show for my 5 grand is a rusty ute:(

The ute has had alot of rust repairs in the past looking at the chassis and I am worried that all of the time money and effort that I put into the ute is gonna go to waste as its just going to keep on rusting.
The problem is that I have no clue to what I am doing and if I do this work myself its going to take along time due to having to teach myself to weld ect.
The main reason why I brought this ute was I needed a car for transport and I was hopeing to get it on the road in a few weeks. Unfortunatly at the moment I do not have any spare money to buy another car with so it kind of screwed that up.
Carnt really afford to pay a proffesional to do the work for me.
I really like the ute I had alot of great plans for it, the only other situation which would work in my favour was to buy another ute and use this one for parts, as I feel eventually I would get my 5 grands work out of parts.
But bit of a #OOPS# as its going to be along time before I can afford to do that.
Trying to pull the old fender off has been a nightmare because all of the rails on the chassis where the fender tacks onto is also rusted so as I am pulling off the fenders the rails are falling apart because of the rust.
I also have to do the other side rear fender and am thinking its going to be the same as this one.
Im not sure what to do.
Heres a couple of pics some stuff I have found sofar.

Thats fixable anything is, but if your cutting the rear quarters off just make sure you are cutting them off within the spot welds. So we can unpick whats left of them and dont have to patch up sections where to much is accidentally cut off. Just look at your new ones and stay well with in the lines of where they need to go back on.

Its getting worse

Hi Andrew thanks for the info on the fenders thats good to know, im picking up a pair from brisbane tomorrow morning.
I dont have any G clamps but I will buy some before you come up.
I will give you a call and we can go from their.
Thanks