I guess some of you guys don't hang out on AlfaBB as here so I have posted some pics presenting the restoration progress with my car. Hope this can be helpful to someone.
Stripping her was much more difficult many nuts/screws/bolts were rusty and many of them broke. My buddy (he's a SAAB freak) helped me with it.
And though it's an alfiat, 146's have nice freighting capabilities:D
After that, I took her to the bodywork mechanic; she's now bassically a shell on four wheels.
Happily no rust under those nasty Zender sideskirts
Ok as I'm missing some of the photos of early stage of body restoration, so that's what was wrong with her:
-Rotten "A" struts - where they meet fenders - usual spot
-Bad Rust in engine bay wall where it meets left fender
-Everything below windscreen was pretty badly eaten by rust.
-huge corrosion below on driver's seat floor compartment, this had to be cut out abot 40cm x 50cm piece
- few smaller rusty spots on the floor.
- rust on both sideskirts on inner sides
- spare wheel area badly eaten by rust
- only very minor rustspots located in few other places
Welding is flat and continous.
As the rust in engine compartment was pretty bad and the left "A" strut was in bad shape left fender had to be cut out. Here welded in:
Pic from the engine bay
New floor recreated and welded back in. Mechanic did a good job.
Right "A" strut base recreated and welded
Left "A" just as it looked before repair. Already fixed.
And both sideskirts fixed:
And bad rust in the trunk
I'll post some pics soon, as I took her yesterday to the spray shop... finally after one month of delay.
and has to have the job done on suspension and engine. Anyway it's GTV6 and I could't think of better car for me. The original color was rosso alfa but, previous owner repainted her into this green "british racing green wannabe" metallic. 
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