From some of the posts on the Yahoo Iltis site it looks like most Iltises are headed for a short and brutal life. The famous picture of one rolled in a coolie and people driving them through deep water doesn't look like these people are thinking of major restoration work. The people I talked to at London Service Unit said that most repairs were sent out to a body shop and the scrap Iltises they had were rough patch jobs.
Even if you had good repair panels to redo an Iltis all the seams are in such poor condition I'm afraid that to start to open up a seam and try to replace a panel it would be a horror story of rusty metal. I have one and from going through it to safety it and trying to understand how the body was assembled I think a rebuild would require a lot of skill and patience. I have been told that the seams and welds on a unit body are what give it rigidity and strength so that may be why there are such precise rewelding instructions.
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