I drove the car for a few weeks after I bought it, I was lucky the seats did not fall through the floor.  The only rust was where the factory welded in support plates on the bottom of the floor pan in the inside seat brackets.

Passenger side, you know under the layers of rusted sheet metal, there is actually some thing in reasonable shape.  I found that there are actually 3 pieces of sheet metal overlapping in this section.  Water got inbetween the top two and made most of the mess but the inner most layer is in fine shape.

You never know what to expect when you take some parts off, the nice factory instally foam and chauking kept this corner in fine shape until you started digging it out.  What was left was a hole you could drive a Mack truck though.  But amazingly the trunk and floor pan are almost perfect.

I did not expect this, those nice Hella fog lights looked to be in great shape.  Took off the grill and front bumper and found I could not loosen the adjusting nut.  Took off the allen nut to remove the light, and found could not get the light apart but I could put my finger right through the casing.  From the pictures you can see that there is not much rust in the the front of the car, just abit around a head light, but not so with the fog lights (both in the same shape).

As least just some surface rust around the windshield (deep though).  Looks like the worst is over, no more surprises and can start getting on to the repair side.

From first appearance just looks like a little crack in the insulation coating.  Not!  A screwdriver could be pushed right through, looks bad but really only a small strip on each side was rusted through, with lots of room to weld in a patch.

Driver side door sill, partially removed.  I never have seen what outer rocker panels look like.  Have to wait until I find new ones.

Its amazing how symetrically the rust is on the drivers side.  It didn't look as bad but it actually is worse on the bottom and will require additional steel to be welded in on the bottom.  Note the sagging remanant of the seat support on the floor pan.

Due to symetry I knew this side also had to be in bad shape, I cleaned and scraped hard but could only create a couple of small holes.  Shame to go through all this work and then cover it up with the bumper again.

Just for you people that have rust free 914's.

I am getting tired of digging out body foam.  But these holes in the sail/role bar are the last.  Not being a load bearing part of the car a nice fibreglass repair should be cost effective in this area.  It doesn't look like metallic paint will be the way to go as I'm sure rust touch-ups will be a yearly item until the metal is replaced some day.