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Well, I finally got my car to drive and perform the way I wanted it to, so it was time for disassembly and restoration to make the car nice.

It was heavily undercoated when I bought it, and I removed all of the undercoating from the floors, as well as the factory undercoating from the inner fenders and rocker panels. I did this with a propane torch and paint scraper, followed up by various wire wheels and grinders. I also had to cut out the subframe connectors to get at everything.

After all the undercoating/etc was removed, I had to sand out the remaining scratches from front to rear.

After this was done, the car as masked off, and primed with etching primer, then primer/surfacer. The primer/surfacer was then sanded, re-seam sealed everything, and then painted with Dupont chromabase and then clearcoat.

I probably have around 100 hours into this project (not including disassembly of the car).

Just this weekend alone I spent about 35 hours on it.

At least now it's time for re-assembly. I have most of the suspension parts, and exhaust, etc, in my basement allready powdercoated.

Should have a few more pics later.


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superchannelkev

iTrader: (8)

damn... that looks like a lot of work, but turned out looking killer!!!

StoleIt

iTrader: (3)

damn!!!! looks and sounds like a crap load of work. looks good, can't wait till you get it all buttoned back up.

wild thing

iTrader: (2)

Hell yea post pics of it when you get it all back together.

2K2WS6TA

iTrader: (2)

Good God almighty that looks killer (the underside of the car is shinier than the top)
Great job

LawmanSS

iTrader: (19)

That is awesome! Great work...I'd love to be able to do that to mine...

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Thanks guys. I added a few more pics.

BLk01SS

iTrader: (7)

Nice work man.

Can't wait to see what it looks like when its back together

Brandon Boomhauer

iTrader: (10)

Looks great! I can only dream of going that to mine.

Brian2001SS

iTrader: (1)

WOW, that is truely a inspiration to me. I want to do that, but man, that is a butt load of work. Great work!

cgworth

iTrader: (11)

good job

01 Red WS6

iTrader: (4)

Wow looks great

Pyro97

iTrader: (7)

very nice. I can't wait till I can go through mine like that.

Todd2001SS

Wow that is awesome! That turned out nice.

DopeFedZ

iTrader: (34)

That is what I call dedication. Great job! I would have to pay someone to do that to my car. That is alot of work.

Bird Man

iTrader: (1)

That looks great--your time was well spent

AronZ28

iTrader: (2)

I'm envious. The underside of your car is cleaner and shinnier than the top side of mine.

777

iTrader: (21)

I think you gave todd new ideas for his amazing car. haha

chupr0kabra

iTrader: (10)

That's exactly what I was thinking.

Car looks great!


-Mike

~JOSHUA

iTrader: (92)

When I plan to restore my 'Hawk years from now that'd be the way to do it!!! Top notch job!!! Reminds me of when I did a frame off resto- of a '57 Bel Air.