Hello,
Thank you all very much for the welcome and encouraging words!!
Till now the project is a lot of (time consuming) fun and I do enjoy it a lot. From the very beginning the assumption was to make it a more - less complete restauration project, also because that was the thing I wanted to go through since many years. I assume lots of challenges, doubts, disappointment or frustration are coming along with such endavour and I like to think that I'm prepared for that, but of course - time will show.
Looking for the car to buy I had not looked for the one that I could just refresh and drive, but of course I had a very vague idea what should I look for etc. Only after few months and not so many hours of working with it I'm much wiser but not wise at all.
What I found during the dissasembly was quite a lot of welding done back in 1990 - mainly rear fenders, some on the sides and in the front and some minor looking rust holes in few points. After welding it was all painted black and after that the car had never left the garage. So superficially it looks as it's nice but I'm aware, that underneath there might be lots of unpleasant surprises waiting. That's why I'd like to have the paint and all other substances stripped completely, then have the welding job done and after that to make the painting to the wonderful orange colour. I hope that what I'd find wont be to much damaged to repair.
@ Les - I think you're right about the project size, but looking at your Beta story I'm very sure that you have uncomparably more knowledge and experience in all that than me. But I won't surrender easily.
@ Peteracs - thanks for the hint. I'm afraid that you'd be right with that. We'll see when the fenders are gone.
In regard to the trunk - I attach the photo and you can see that in my trunk it's just nothing - two sad looking holes. I have no idea what it was, but the part catalogue shows two misterious artefacts (no. 2 and 20) 82321884 (2) - called rest, sack lower, italian 'base appoggio sollevatore' so the jack should be put there) and 82321885 (20) - called housing which again doesn't say much to me, but italian 'sede borsa portautensili' - shows that the tools set shoud go there.
I'd be grateful if some other forum user, who has it all complere could take some pictures to see how it exactly should look like...
@ Łukasz - congratulations with your HPE, I'd be pleased to meet you and see the Beta some time - if you're in Opalenica, it's not to far. I won't hesitate to aim to benefit from your experience and I'm glad that you're in Poland. I know that the project may last for quite a long time and I'm really happy not to have any time pressure on that. I apparently have to care for my patience and persistence during that adventure.
