The first thing that I did was remove all of the fenders and both doors.  This was done across a span of about 3 weeks, and took at total of about 12 hours.  Because of a front end collision most of the bolts in the right front fender would not back out.  they just spun along with the metal backing plates behind them (the "nuts").  The left rear had the same problem.  This was fixed when one of my friends attempted to tear the rubber mat that was holding the running board on.  He stomped down, and pulled all of the bolts and the nuts attached to them out through the holes in the body.

The next step was to remove all of the bolts that were holding the body to the pan.   Oh boy!!!  First I called Charles, one of my good friends.  Once he was here, we started decided to remove the fuel tank first.  It was half full, so I was going to pick it up, and then quickly plug the fuel line.  I picked it up, and couldn't see the hose.  I called Charles over and asked him to look for the hose.   "Yea, you mean the one that is spewing gas all over the place?"  I had broken the brittle fuel line the first time I picked it up.  We removed the tank and put it on top of a 2 gallon jug.  It was "Seeping" gas just fast enough to make a mess unless there was a bucket under it. I am sure that the tank is rusty, and the filter is clogged.

After that we set off to work on the bolts that held the body on.  Whoa, 32 years really did a number on them.  About half came out, with the help of a nice 4 foot persuader and a socket wrench.  The rest we soaked with "creeping" aerosol gun oil, and went to get a cold drink.  The seats came out easy enough, and and so did the instruments.  Then we worked on the bolts that had become stuck.  I have got to hand it to Charles, he removed almost all of the bolts around the perimeter of the pan, on the bottom.  The ones in front of the passenger door basically didn't need to be removed as the heater channel was almost gone.  I (with a great deal of effort) removed the two bolts under neath the fuel tank, the bolt in each rear wheel well, and the 6 (4 on the sloped gasket area and 2 on the top under neath the sound deadening material).   The two worst ones that I removed were the ones under neath the sound deadening.   The required me to be crouched in the rear seat area, bent over using the persuader to its full advantage, I spent about 30 minutes wearing out my arms and breaking the ratchet. 

Then I put the jack under neath the body at the rear, and the entire car was lifted up.   We found a couple of more bolts, removed them and tried again.  Again, the entire car was lifted up.  I got in the car and bounced a little bit and the pan separated from the body.  We moved to the front and tried the same thing.  Same problem.  The problem was the steering column.  This was a pain in the ass to remove.  The joint was rusted up almost solid, and made removing the bolts next to impossible.  Removing it solved the problem.  We could now each pick up one end of the body.  We didn't have a place to put it.  Time to get a good night's sleep.

Two days later we rolled the car out of the garage and removed the body.  This took three people to complete properly.   Whoa, what a difference.  I could not completely evaluate the condition of the pan.   It is missing some of the metal on passenger side, and has a small hole on the drivers side.  The engine seems very sound, as well as the suspension.  Some new shocks, new tires, and a little undercoating will help a great deal.

Next we had to get the body to the dump.  Heh, the fun part.  Cutting it in half was more fun than (almost :) anything that I have done (on a car).  We moved the body around to the side of  the house and called it a day. Well, we took a few more pictures first.

Another oddity that we found was a pair of vise grips clamped on the clutch cable.   It had been there for at least 10 years.  Wow! Now they are a part of my tool collection (some good penetrating oil helped me release them from the cable).  Here is another (darker) picture of it while the body was still in place.