I am going to try my best to describe along with the images what was done at the point it was taken. For some reason
I didn’t take pictures of the actual work being done, never thought to? But I did take pictures of the finished work.
My car has NO bondo at all in it filling any holes. A little was used to cover over light pitting and to smooth welds, but other
than that it’s ALL METAL

And the story starts:

I found this car listed in the local trading paper listed as a 1953 Pontiac. I called and decided to check it out.
Once I pulled into the lady’s driveway, dad wanted to leave right then because what he saw is what you see in the first picture.
It looked rougher than it actually was though, I convinced him that I was doing the work and he wasn’t so I looked at it and knew
from first glance it WASN’T a ‘53, but rather a 52 because of the body style and split windshield which changed in 1953 to a solid wind
shield and a body style similar to the 53 Chevy.

I bought the car as seen, it had no wheels on the front, the drums were buried 4″ in the ground. Most chrome was there, but missing pieces
were the 2 strips for the drivers side door, rocker stainless, hand strap for the back seat, and the sending unit for the gas tank, the person
threw away… gas tank was really rusty. The back of the car was blocked up with jack stands. It was a project alone to just get the car out
of there.

This is what the car looked like the day I bought it.

I took the rims that were laying beside it in the first picture home
and mounted some tires and went back and dug the car out of the dirt and
put them on it.

Here’s a back shot

There was a lot of junk in the interior of the car.

This is the original 268 Straight eight, and still has the Hydromatic transmission.