What rust?

Some decent pictures of all the rust was needed for the paint man.  He wanted to know what he was getting himself into and whether we were really going to be able to meet the September deadline.  From his experience he knew that any surface rust was liable to turn into giant gaping holes in the bodywork.  I offered up my welding services and suggested that I could do the repairs, his response was I had better get ordering some metal patches so we could get going on the repairs as soon as the snow melted.

Right side rear quarter panel, in front of the rear wheel.  I ordered an outside and inside patch for this side.

Right side rear quarter panel, behind the wheel.  Surprisingly this was in decent shape.  I am guessing this car had mud flaps installed at one time.  Note the MGB decal for the Mark IV.  I will not be putting these back on since they scream 70's!

Left hand side rear quarter panel in front of the wheel well.  It appears that this is just a little bit of surface rust.  By the time I get through prepping this section I am convinced it will be right through to the inner rocker.  I may even have to patch the inner wheel well.

The right hand front fender.  That looks like a nasty combination of rust and bondo.  A light sand should do it?  By the time we peeled back all the paint and bondo we discovered the MG had been in a front end collision and there was no way to repair this fender.  A new one was ordered from Moss, the money spent saved hours in prep and potential future problems.

Behind the license plate.  This looked far worse that it turned out to be.  I thought there was going to be a huge hole behind the plate but it turned out to be just surface rust.

The first batch of parts was ordered and I continued to work on stripping the car down.