Thursday, March 20, 2008

Paint removal and blasting the bottom




The doors, the fenders and the trunk lid went to media blasting. They were blasted with a plastic media that minimizes warping. On the rest of the body paint we used a chemical stripper. Somewhere along the line I got the brilliant idea to sand blast the bottom of the car and the trunk. I used a granite media that did a great job. Special thanks to Joe Bacik and Shaun and Mike Kichka for all their help with this nasty job. I am very glad we added this step. It improved the end result. You can see in the pictures where the lower rear quarter panel was patched. This repair was old and brazed in place. All we did was camouflage it to restore the bottom stamping lines. Most of the underneath was very solid.

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