Well here we go again with another long overdue post.
Remember all that sandblasting? Well, we had to have it sand blasted again. It turns out if you use silica sand the powder coating will not stick very well, so you have to re-shoot it with a garnet media to get the finish right for the powder coat. We made it much much easier for them anyway. Felix is working away here stripping the frame for the last and final time
Here is Tony in the booth spraying some miscellaneous parts and getting them ready to bake in the oven. No, all the parts there are not ours. There was some fencing and other things that were getting the same color that day.
Voila!....before and after. these are the radiator brackets for the car. The old rusty one is off of the parts car. We won't be needing it so it will be going up for sale to anyone who wants one for their project.
This is the leaf spring hardware, the top, are the ones we will use on the car, the others Ebay? trash? who knows!
Look at how nice the coil springs came out! And the other squiglly things are the front fender brackets.
This will be one of the front control arms when it is all assembled.
It looks like a total mess but all of these parts will be the chassis for the car in the upcoming weeks.
Aaaaah yes......enter the bones of the whole build. We traded in the old rust and got back a fresh new powdercoating. Lou, the owner of Section 8 Powdercoating, does such good work that when I went up to get the frame and we found a couple of spots that were not to his liking he told me to come back tomorrow so he could re-shoot the whole thing again. He wouln't let it go until it was right. Remember when all busineses ran on a promise and a handshake? And they wouldn't let you have it until it was right?
This is something we didn't see until we stripped all the rust off of the frame. This is the original serial number that was stamped three times on the left frame rail and also the engine block. This is what they talk about when they say numbers matching.
The chassis stamp on the mid section of the frame rail. Keep in mind with the body on top of the frame rail you will never see this again. Kind of neat to know it is under there.
This is the VIN tag for the car. It is not the same as the Chassis number on the frame or the engine block. I don't know why they factory didn't just use the same number for all three. This is the number the DMV uses. Kind of a funny story, when I got this car from Jack he had it regestered off of the engine block because you couldn't find this tag under all the grease. After much cleaning and degreasing, we found this and changed the title over to this number, because it is the proper registration number for the car.
More work is being done every day, so once we have enough to make a worthwhile blog post, we'll update it again!
