WELL... lots of masking and a few hours later this was how I salvaged the body. As you can see, cleaning of all the old paint made the body VERY hazy so I was not willing to put a ton of work into it. I wanted simple and quick.
The remake of the original design will be reserved for my new manta body. I will post pics of that in the next few days as i get more done. Over all considering that I thought this body was a total loss I think it will make a great bashing body.