The last thing I wanted was a shell off restoration. Unfortunately, we do not always get what we want.
After investing a huge amount of time restoring the windows (see: https://youtu.be/9sbpiLy99CE] it became clear that the shell needed to come off so we could repair the frame.
The video we have on You Tube condenses the better part of two days into about 9 minutes. https://youtu.be/JCiO4YcsQuk
The worst part was, once we had the shell off, we were told by multiple welders that the frame could not be repaired (except for one guy who quoted us $10K to fix it) and this we pre-pandemic. Ultimately, we had to have the frame rebuilt for the cost of approximately $3.5K.