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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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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I really like old Mercs. This car was parked in a barn in 1961 and wasn’t moved out until just recently. The car was delivered to me partially disassembled as it is pictured. We spent at least four hours washing the car out with a power washer. It smelled like a farm and fertilizer. It [...]

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