It looks like a clean 78 from the pictures! Congrats!

 

Nice Monte!
Sorry to hear the other poooped out on you...

I wouldnt mind haveing them tips off the buick...

There use to be a place at 9 mile and schoenherr here in waren michigan...That was the Go To guy for redoing interiors!
He use to do some of Chuck Barris's custom hot rods interiors.
Just to give you an idea of how good he was....
Sorry I dont know anyone in Ohio to help you out.

 

Rusted out rear frame rails is usually bad news. I had a 79 Monte that had the rear bumper\frame fall off on the interstate one day. If I could have found the rails, a local shop was going to charge me around $1000.00 to put them in. I ended up just selling the car. Your car looks nice,but the first thing I always check on a g-body is the rear frame.

 

i'll have a set from my 85 for sale come spring



just the more i think about it how much of a pain it would be to do in the car, unless you cut wholes in the body there is no way to weld it all the way around without lifting it or going almost all the way to the rearend hump

 

Congrats on the new Monte!