When I first saw the inner fenders to this car I couldn’t believe how rusty they were. I thought for sure that there would be nothing left of them after they were sandblasted. Fortunately I was wrong. The engine compartment side of them was covered with thick scaly rust. The side facing the tire had a lot of undercoating on them which took some time to scrape off. It took the blaster quit a while to get the rust off. They cleaned up nice and actually look very good. We also had the doors, fenders, and trunk lid blasted too.
This is how bad the rust was on the inner fenders.
This is after they were blasted. They turned out nicer than expected.
This is the doors and trunk lid. Notice he went very light on the trunk skin.
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1 1949 Mercury Convertible Restoration Part 34 | Auto Restoration 101 // Mar 24, 2009 at 5:37 am
[...] they were sandblasted we repaired the major rust, and then welded up all of the stress cracks. In Part 13 there are a few picture of them before and after they were sandblasted. We now have them all [...]
2 1949 Mercury Convertible Restoration Part 34 | 1800blogger // Mar 24, 2009 at 4:11 pm
[...] they were sandblasted we repaired the major rust, and then welded up all of the stress cracks. In Part 13 there are a few picture of them before and after they were sandblasted. We now have them all [...]
3 1949 Mercury Convertible Restoration Part 34 | Classic Cars Blog // Mar 24, 2009 at 4:11 pm
[...] they were sandblasted we repaired the major rust, and then welded up all of the stress cracks. In Part 13 there are a few picture of them before and after they were sandblasted. We now have them all [...]
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