After cleaning the interior it was time to get back to bodywork. I removed all the paint and bondo from the body, to see if there is some rust underneath it. I only found little spots from the stonechipped places. I used this kind of spot-sandblasting- tool to clean those.

Very handy little thing. You can sandblast indoors without any dust at all. I left the roof alone, because there seems to be nothing wrong with it.
How do you like my new garage floor? A friend of mine had some spare laminate he had to get rid of, so there it is now

Nice and comfy and easy to keep clean. Too bad the garage is like a bunker otherwise. But then again, you usually get some things done, when there isn't any distraction around you.
Before removing glass from the doors I tested window motors. All of them seemed to work, but driver's side motor was pretty lazy and slow. I think I'll just replace it with some other motor. Also the motor of the drivers side vent window is missing. Are they available as reproduction parts?
There was some cleaning to do with the rails...
The brakes didn't work when I bought the car, so I opened them and did little maintenance work.
Rear brakes had been opened recently, and there was nothing wrong with them.
The cylinders in front brakes were stuck, but I got them moving with some cleaning and greasing.
Lower spring in the passengers side front brake was broken, so I replaced it with one from Volvo Amazon. Fits perfectly and is easily available here
The bushings in the front end are all shot, so I need to replace them all. Can you recommend any rebuild kits that are offered in ebay?
Now the worst parts. The trunk lid and bonnet were badly rusted with many holes in them. I cut off the inner structures of them and built "cradles" from some bars around them, so they wouldn't lose their shape during the acid-dipping and other handling. I had a feeling, that there wouldn't be much of them left after the dip, and unfortunately I wasn't wrong...
Trunk lid before dipping:
After:
Doesn't look too good...
Bonnet before:
And after:
Bonnet was just too badly rusted, but luckily I found one from 62 Continental that is in almost perfect condition. Cost only 200€. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with the trunk lid. You can't find them anywhere, so I guess I'll just have to try to fill those holes with lead and build new inner structures from scratch. Welding patch plates would be pretty risky move, because of the warping issues. But I'll see what I can do

Maybe, I'll give it to some professional welder, bit I would rather do everything with this project by myself. After all, I'm not in a hurry and the main point of the project is to learn new things
I did some work to find out the history of the car and got lucky. I found a little receipt under the back seat with date and name on it:
Found a guy with the same name and birth date that fits to the date in receipt from Facebook and asked him if he remembers anything about the car. Found out that the car has been in the same family from 1965 to 1989 when it was sold to someone who sold it to Finland. After some more research I found one journalist from finnish old car magazine who had imported the car to Finland and did a six page test drive story to the magazine. Got the magazine and some more pretty interesting information

The guy was pretty upset of the condition of the car and even more upset when I told him I'm going to add air suspension and change the color...
The car has been in museum register since 1994 and has been de-registered in 2002. Odometer now says 93k miles and the journalist said there had been 63k miles when the car was imported. With the 30 days a year rule and the gas prices in Finland, that reading might be right.
At the moment I'm doing paint prep work. Passengers side is almost ready and I think I can start with the drivers side next week. I'll add some pictures of the current situation tomorrow.