Auto Restoration 101

RC Sandblasting should return this week if the weather permits. This time to take care of the frame and some of the other small parts. I spent the previous week gatthering all of the chrome and stainless parts that need polishing and repairs. If I can, I like to repair my own parts [...]

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As soon as we could we prepped the outer body panels on the Mercury and sprayed them with some epoxy primer. We used a 3M Clean & Strip disc and went over the quarter panels and the tail panel. They were already starting to rust just from sitting over the weekend. We also sprayed epoxy [...]

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In the last post I mentioned that there was a lot of rust that showed up after the body was sandblasted. I knew beforehand that we needed to repair the rocker panels and the rear trunk floor but I did not realize that there was a lot of rust in the spare tire well, [...]

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The body was rolled out back of the shop on Friday to get sandblasted. I use RC Mobile Sandblasting out of Wichita, Kansas. He does a great job and really takes the time to do it right. The next step will be to get some primer on it right away. The weather has [...]

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The frame is completely apart now. When I was taking it apart I noticed several stress cracks. A couple of them were on the old welds. One was on the left front frame rail right in front of the spring tower. The rear spring mount brackets were also bent inward causing the bottoms of the [...]

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We finally have all of the undercoating and old seam sealer removed from the body. The next step before we have the body sandblasted is to document the original colors. There are several colors on this car. The exterior, the interior garnish trim and the underside of the car. For the exterior color I [...]

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