The restoration of the 79 5sp is progressing well if not slowly, the rusty section has been sand blasted, and it does look better now that it's clean.
We will need to make a decission whether to repair it, or acquire a replacement rear 1/4 panel and do a cut and shut repair. There has been good news I now know for sure that I have a genuine 79 rear hatch, we found the 928 pressed into the rear window surrounding trim, we now know that a "S" type spoiler was fitted to the original 79 model hatch after market and not swapped for a later model hatch, all very important when you are returning the car to it's original 1979 trim.
While we are on the subject of original trim the Pascha fabic that was in the original interior seat inserts etc has arrive from Germany it is Brown / Beige check, it will look fantastic when the car is retrimmed most likely early next year now as we have had a few set backs and we are about 3 weeks behind schedule