Auto Restoration 101

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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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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I was kidding….. it’s a massive dent! This happened on a 1940 Ford Coupe. Apparently it was driven underneath a four post lift that was too low. This dent had the largest “eyebrow” I had ever seen. If you look closely at the dent pictures you will notice the “eyebrow”, which is the [...]

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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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My apologies for the website technical problems. It seems that my hosting company has been working on some server problems. Hopefully it will be resolved soon. Stay tuned…… More articles coming soon.
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This was about 2 years ago……A friend handed me this pack of sanding blocks that he had just got at the SEMA show. I looked at them and thought “yeah, right…. like I would use these funny looking things on anything” and said “thanks” and then we went on about some car [...]

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