With the rest of the car being tackled paint-wise, it was time to address to the situation at the front. Because it fit quite well on the old front wings, I had decided to stick with the original grill. As I had already suspected the little truck must have had a most likely not so little crash as the front left frame end was a bit bent. With two new front wings it became rather apparent that the grill wasn't even remotely as straight as I had originally thought.
But first: drilling out snapped bolts.
After "some" bending, hammering and redrilling of the mounting holes, the grill was back to the point where it could at least be somewhat attached to the front.
Should be rather obvious what I meant, when I wrote "kind of attached"...
Not sure why, but the bottom end had to be narrowed down quite a bit in order to fit.
As usual: the previous owners' strategy for rust treatment was to slather it in bondo, so this meant even more work by fixing dozens of pin holes and grinding them flat again.
On the upside, if the paint works as intended, the results are pretty spectacular.
... and lastly because the stock plastic door handles absolutely s*ck, I ordered the metal ones as fitted to the Indian Army Maruti Gipsy.
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