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Originally Posted by bell
Awesome :-)
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Thanks!
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Originally Posted by sc_rufctr
The body and paint looks pretty good... Why strip it? Rust, bad work?
Good luck with the build.
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I'll have to admit, it actually does look pretty good in the pictures. I'm stripping for a couple of reasons. There is some old accident damage to the nose that has a fairly rough repair. It has a new suspension pan and gas tank support but the driver's inner fender is really rough... There is some combo hammer & dolly/welding work that needs to be done to the inner fender.
Elsewhere in the car, I have found loose undercoating with surface rust underneath. Over all, the car is incredibly rust free but I want to nip the potential problems in the bud now. ...and most importantly, I just can't stand the color and the quality of the job is okay, not great
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Originally Posted by kach22i
Cute indeed.
Good luck with that.
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Yes, I was amused.
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Originally Posted by vracer
And the color is to be?
Repaint now if you are not 110% with the color or quality. I can't imagine how my butt would feel from kicking myself if I had to strip the car to repaint in two years. An added benefit is that you can let the paint dry properly between stages at this time while you're doing other projects.
One problem: Your local bartender is going to forget your name.
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That is exactly what I am doing. Here is a picture I took yesterday showing the progress:
I went through all of the boxes and have catalogued the parts (not since yesterday but over the past few weeks). Stowed the boxes up on the loft in the workshop, cleaned my work area and began dismantling the remaining parts on the car.
This morning I was down to the wiring harness and cables. I have a spare wiring harness and really wanted to compare both side by side, pick the best and make any necessary repairs. That means I need to remove the existing one from the car. It looks like it should be straight forward but it felt like something was hanging up in the tube it runs through... so I stopped. Any recommendations? I'd leave it in place if it weren't as chewed up as it is.
Since I decided to stop working on that, I finished removing the sound deadening material from the floor. Yesterday, I got this far with just a scraper alone:
Today, I pulled out my new Harbor Freight cheapy heat gun... It worked fantastic and made quick work of the remaining!
A little surface rust but overall and in need of a little hammer and dolly work, but overall the floors are in really good shape.