Need rear frame/spring perch for driver side!

[Slinkface]

Ok, I just found the biggest upset so far in my project car. I recently bought the car a week ago and it appears I've been worked over, being busy with work today was the first time I was able to get the car on a lift to thoroughly inspect it mainly for rust repair since the last few days I have gutted the interior and tomorrow I was going to starting grinding sanding and cutting all rust and or rot from the car to patch with 20 ga sheet. To my surprise the driver side coil perch was about 3 inches through the spot the frame was supposed to be, I couldn't believe it because driving the car i never would have guessed it had a serious problem like this even though my road time had been extemely limited. Many people will say scrap it but I don't want to scrap it, I am either going to get at the very least a third of my payment back to repair this problem or take the previous owner to court and put a good legal spanking on him and since he had never registered or paid taxes on the car in assuming he would just rather handle this outside of the law. If I cannot find a donor replacement can anyone tell me the proper gauge sheet that I need in order to patch the frame, and I will just order the perch online and weld it to the frame graft, thank you in advance.

[Ronan]

I can cut that section out of my old car. Its in perfect shape. Take a picture of what all you want and I will get it cut out. Sorry to hear you are having such trouble.

[Slinkface]

Hey thanks! I would really appreciate that, the picture may not be the best tomorrow I plan on to taking some time to properly clean it up to see how extensive the damage really is with my angle grinder but I think it's safe to say that I probably at least need 8"-10" in length and probably the entire depth of the frame rail with the perch in the center. You can message me what it will cost and we can work that out, I would be forever grateful because I really don't want to give up on the chassis, it needs some love and that's what I want to give it. I have real limited expertise with body repair, I thought I had gotten lucky that all the rot I found was in either the floor pan or behind wheel wells in small diameters that would be easy to hide with small sheet patches. The car looks pretty clean on the exterior and all of the rot and rust was hidden by rubberized undercoat on the underside of the chassis. I had to peel back the carpet and take the seats and trunk apart to reveal it and then poke it out with my wire brush scraper which those holes were pretty depressing to come across and then I ran into this and messages the previous owner and his first reaction was asking me if I had been jumping the car that it didn't leave his house in that condition. This was the second time I even had the car on the road, the first time was driving it home from the purchase and doing work on the exhaust, cooling system, brakes, a full tune up adjusted the valves and finally got the drive train decent enough to take around and then find this blown completely out. Like he really thought in 5 days I somehow completely oxidized the thickest structural steel that's on the car, not to mention I have like $260 in the mail already for the car including new motor mounts, windshield seals which caused the floor pan holes in the first place, all kinds of Eastwood encapsulators, frame coating, and undercoating as well as all sheet metal to fix the holes and a new shifter setup because the one in the car currently is slop. It's been less than a week and I already have too much tied into the car to call it quits. I have a car cover on the thing so it doesn't flood out when it rains for crying out loud, I honestly don't know who is just cool with their car leaking water when it's a couple decades old and not even attempting to slow the leaks or let them get so bad they could potentially ruin a perfectly good platform that is going up in value I would like to think im rescuing this car but as of right it is apparent that I paid way too much money initially because it seemed at the time the surface rust was light and the engine only needed a little care given to it to revive it to its potential which has turned out to be mostly true but I can't even get it legal until I fix all the structural problems which was totally unforeseen. I guess in the future I need to bring a floor jack to my test drives as well as demanding to see under the carpets