I think that a battery must have ruptured or ? previously, the passenger inner fender well as well as around the battery tray and front area seemed to have gotten the brunt of it.  It seemed to expedite the paint removal in the engine area and then the surface rust followed.  So I am going through and cleaning/painting the affected area's but leaving the firewall as is .  The undercarriage was heavily undercoated from new.  I just freshened up the faded undercoating.  

Have to clear out the shop to do some other work so it will be reassembled as a roller and I will be back at it in appx. 3 week's when the engine will be finished.  I will post more pic's when it's in roller status and as headway is made.  Thank you for digging this as much as I do.  Ty 

The lip moulding is actually in pretty nice shape, however I do have rust along the inner trunk lid along the lip closest to the rear of the car.  Must have been put away without being properly dried on a number of occasions.  Will post a couple more pics of the progress in the next couple of days.  I was fortunate and was graciously directed to a source for the tach, I have decided to only do the factory tach as a add on, and not pursue the manual gauges avenue at this point.   

That would be excellent,  very much appreciated,  Ty

Yup just used it, Still have it and happy to send it along. Just send me a private message and we'll get it in the mail.

One note is that your tach may or may not work. I just recently had mine rebuilt so i can direct you there if necessary.

Thanks Carl, one more quick question.   I ordered some Monroe sensamatic shocks, installed the fronts no problem but the rear were wrong the upper mount were the two bolts go through was not at a angle like the originals.  They ordered the shocks for a 66 Caprice, all the other suspension components thus far have been correct using the Caprice designation.  They don't list Parisienne's, will the Catalina rear shocks fit?   

These are the last pic's of updates until I get the engine  pieces back from the machine shop.  Had to push it out of my shop and into my front garage, hopefully will be back full tilt in 3 weeks for the final push on the mechanical part of the project.