Some more progress today...

It got up to around 55 or so today so i decided to get my '73 off fo the trailer so i could start on it. i got it off, and then to proceed to remove the interior. wasn't too bad of a job, just alot of dirt and dust. i got everything out to survey the rust damage. the floors aren't as bad i was expecting so im pleased with that. see for yourself..... i also have more pics in my photo bucket at http://s70.photobucket.com/albums/i82/mean_maverick/73 Grabber/?start=20

 

Street signs and pop rivets!

Wish mine was a stick shift.

 

actually i have a parts car that had perfect floors that i'll be welding in. my car wasn't a stick shift, someone just hacked a hole for a shifter

 

gutted.....it was nice today!

 

What the heck is that plate on the floor? I've never seen anything like that. Looks factory?

I see daylight through the floor where the torque box should be. Looks like you have your work cut out for you.

 

I have the same bracket in mine. One seat stud goes through it.
Probably there to level the seat.

 

None of my cars have it, and I've never seen one with it in the junkyard either. I have seen the other smaller reinforcement that follows the contour of the floor on the factory bucket seat cars where the front of the inner track bolts up. But it looks nothing like that, and his car appears to have been a bench seat car? Also I see his car has it on just the drivers side while your car has it on both sides.

 

my car has it on both sides as well, as it WAS a bench seat car. i agree with you, i have neevr seen another car with this bracing from any other car that i have owned. and on the bottom of the floor pans, it has the correct factory hole for bucket seats. kinda nice so i dont have to guess where to drill the hole like in my '71

 

that where my parts cars come in

 

yeah, that's what it's for but the odd thign that Jamie was pointing out is that my car is a bench seat car and shouldnt have those support brackets...

 

Yea, that and I have never seen such a thing period, even in factory bucket seat cars. Then again I can't say I've ever seen the floor in a '73 factory bucket car, but I've seen factory bucket '71 and '72 floors and while they had a reinforcement, it looks nothing like that.

Sorry, didn't mean to get your thread off. Just every time you think you've seen it all with these cars, something else pops up.

 

i agree and im glad you mentioned that because i was going to but forgot everything about it. i could understand it more for bucket seat cars, even if they just started it in '73 but i have parted out a 75,76 and owned a 77 all with bench seats and none of those cars had the braces like this one.

 

mine is bucket LDO and i have it on both sides

 

i would expect them in a bucket seat car but not in a bench seat car like mine

 

Yep....those are extra floor bracing in bucket seat cars. Not sure why a bench seat car would have them. What was the interior code?