Well *****. That all puts me in a bind.
I've discovered that both footwells are rusted badly.
The passenger side has a 6cm hole just where it angles up from the floor that someone has done a crappy job fixing by slapping some fiberglass over the hole from the inside and leaving it untouched on the outside (apart from some spray paint)
both sides have holes in the strengthening bars (or whatever you call them - the raised channels in the footwell panel).
I was planning on sanding them both back, fixing the holes properly and repainting.
can you used paint-stripper on PUP paint?
If not, I'm screwed. both really need to go back to bare metalto fix the rest of the surface rust that is taking hold.
<edit> forgot to mention the hole is right over the chassis outrigger, just to make it even more difficult to fix.
