Blast Off....The Paint

Roy, my media blaster, called November 1st and advised that the body tub and all the various body panels were done, so I grabbed my camera, rented a dozen packing blankets from U-Haul, and headed out to Roy's place. Here are some pixs of the body panels:

Both rear wings (fenders) looked pretty good....no major problems.



The front fenders have some small holes, but my body man assured me they are repairable.



I was a little disappointed to find evidence of crash damage repair on the bonnet (hood)...hopefully nothing that can't be fixed, but it had looked so nice with the paint still in place.  :-(


The front part of the bonnet has a lot of these little dents that I'm told are signs of repair.


 Not to mention this bent lip along the front edge.



Both doors are nice and solid with just a few minor dings to be fixed.



The boot (trunk) lid was almost perfect, just 4 holes to be filled from a luggage rack sometime in Tillie's past.




John, my body guy, has a trailer and offered to meet me at Roy's and haul the body tub to his shop. Here's what we saw when looking at the tub.






Closer examination shows the ugly part !




I wasn't real surprised at the holes, after all, this is a 40 year old car that spent it's life in the midwest. I'll be buying some new metal parts, but John assures me Tillie is fixable, and he's seen much worse brought back to life !

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