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Originally Posted by carbuff

Jody,

Car looks great! Just curious, did you strip the car to the metal? If so, what method did you choose?

Look forward to more updates!
Bryan

I did strip it (or had it done!). I've used baking soda and sandblasting with equal results. With sandblasting though choose a company that knows how to do it to not overheat the metal.

Jody

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Originally Posted by camcojb

I did strip it (or had it done!). I've used baking soda and sandblasting with equal results. With sandblasting though choose a company that knows how to do it to not overheat the metal.

Jody

Jody, does the baking soda remove rust? I know to only use less destructive media (not sand) to remove the paint, rust, etc. Such as walnut shells, plastics and that sort of stuff because it produces less heat. Any idea which is the best for a car body (69 camaro)? I have quite a bit of rust on my project. What should I expect to pay someone/shop to do an entire body? Your thoughts.

I was quoted $1500 to chemically strip my camaro body and $75 per door. I decided to sand it down instead...but now wich I would have had it dunked in the tank!!

Car's looking great, Jody, but I think you gave us newer pics on TC?

lol, never mind, just saw the next post, bet the new ones I saw are in there, s'cuse me while I go read that one!

Awesome progress! Your car is going to be one sweet ride. :hail:

When do you think you’ll have paint on it?

Hi Jody, the cars' looking way cool. I live in the Great Britain & came across this web site a few weeks ago.... awesome! When I saw the pics of your car on your web site I thought I was having deja vu, as i'm currently building a '69 Camaro, with SS hood,to be painted black with dark grey metallic SS stripes & a dark grey underbody similar to the Kris Horton images.The shell's away being media blasted & I'm currently doing the body work ( I own a bodyshop). I guess that this question has been done to death, but what was wrong with the black paintwork & why the change of plan to silver, hope you don't mind me asking. Looking forward to more pics of the car soon. :)

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Originally Posted by tndude

Awesome progress! Your car is going to be one sweet ride. :hail:

When do you think you’ll have paint on it?

Should be painted in the next 2-3 weeks.

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Originally Posted by evilzee28

Hi Jody, the cars' looking way cool. I live in the Great Britain & came across this web site a few weeks ago.... awesome! When I saw the pics of your car on your web site I thought I was having deja vu, as i'm currently building a '69 Camaro, with SS hood,to be painted black with dark grey metallic SS stripes & a dark grey underbody similar to the Kris Horton images.The shell's been media blasted & I'm currently doing the body work ( I own a bodyshop). I guess that this question has been done to death, but what was wrong with the black paintwork & why the change of plan to silver, hope you don't mind me asking. Looking forward to more pics of the car soon........Nigel :)

The painter screwed up the paint 4 times; the last one he had a run in the 1/4 panel and sanded through trying to fix it; he blended it pretty well, but I could still tell and just decided to bail out and paint it myself. I usually paint my own cars, but it was too cold to paint in my shop when the car was ready for paint so I hired a guy with a booth.

You should just build your own booth now.

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Originally Posted by camcojb

Should be painted in the next 2-3 weeks.

Does this mean you have driven it now? You said you were going to pre-assemble it in primer and put it to the streets before paint...