My rebuild
#21
08-30-2010 | 03:27 PM
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Soda blasting is the only way to go. Anything else will overheat and warp the remaining steel. I am sure you have seen the ones at the show that had the small waves working. I had mine completely soda blasted and then epoxy sprayed, inside and out.
#23
08-31-2010 | 01:51 PM
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Hey Minex. I saw this car on eBay and started emailing the owner on the history. He has owned the car since the early 80’s. It was stored inside most of the time. He was selling it because he has a 1970 Camaro that is in really good shape and he needed the garage space for that car. I wasn’t the successful eBay bidder. I really wanted the car but wasn’t too excited about the location. I emailed the owner and told him to call me if the winner flakes out on the deal, which does seem to happen often on eBay. Well, the winner flaked out. The owner contacted me and we were able to agree immediately on a price for the car. We did the deal. I drove 26 hours round trip to pick it up and the rest is history.
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08-31-2010 | 01:52 PM
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Looks like soda is the way to go.. Thx
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08-31-2010 | 02:03 PM
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Mine was done with soda. Got nice results. I would say order only as you need. The guy who did the body work on mine did that cause he didn't want allot of body panels sitting around getting out of shape. I basically threw money at it whenever we needed stuff. Time is a funny thing with projects like this. You set out to do something simple and you end up spending most of a sat on it. You will have many days like that. Sometimes we only got to it one weekend a month. Now we are working as much as possible and life just seems to get in the way........allot.
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08-31-2010 | 07:02 PM
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Mine was done with soda. Got nice results. I would say order only as you need. The guy who did the body work on mine did that cause he didn't want allot of body panels sitting around getting out of shape. I basically threw money at it whenever we needed stuff. Time is a funny thing with projects like this. You set out to do something simple and you end up spending most of a sat on it. You will have many days like that. Sometimes we only got to it one weekend a month. Now we are working as much as possible and life just seems to get in the way........allot.
#27
08-31-2010 | 09:19 PM
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Of course. Even though he owned a body shop he still had to pay for the shipping. But he worked on several projects at once, so we would only order when he needed allot of stuff.
#28
08-31-2010 | 10:29 PM
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Hey Minex. I saw this car on eBay and started emailing the owner on the history. He has owned the car since the early 80’s. It was stored inside most of the time. He was selling it because he has a 1970 Camaro that is in really good shape and he needed the garage space for that car. I wasn’t the successful eBay bidder. I really wanted the car but wasn’t too excited about the location. I emailed the owner and told him to call me if the winner flakes out on the deal, which does seem to happen often on eBay. Well, the winner flaked out. The owner contacted me and we were able to agree immediately on a price for the car. We did the deal. I drove 26 hours round trip to pick it up and the rest is history.
