Tuesday 20 August 2013

She's Back

We got the body and the front fenders back from the sandblaster.

Most of the old undercoating came of with the sandblasting. The sandblaster said that the bits where it didn't come off the undercoating was so sticky that it just moved in front of the sand, so we decided to leave it there. After blasting the body and front fenders he put on a coat of grey epoxy primer.








After a brief look there were no big surprises. There were only a few rusted spots that we didn't anticipate, most of them are few millimeter diameter holes though. So still nothing too bad.

The most difficult place to repair will be, by far, the right side lower corner of the rear window as you can see below. Fortunately, the other side has been already repaired so we can use that as a template.



"Little bit" of holes in the trunk

Left side rear light mount. The right side was completely fine.

Next we will be doing some sheet metal work and we have also started the disassembly of the frame.