A few photos of yesterday's progress, with all the junk off the bottom...

You've done half of the media blasters work already !!!!

His job is gonna last about 20 minutes...:)

Hey Ned too bad you weren't in the neigborhood yesterday, I could have put you to work! :D

Well I guess It's about time for an update...I got the body back from media blast on Saturday and I was relieved to find that things weren’t too bad under all that paint.

The blaster did a great job. (Iron Circle Media Blasting in Tracy, CA)


I would never want to do media blast though, on a disassembled car that didn’t go up on a rotisserie. You would be hard pressed to get all the blast media out of it. Even with inverting the body, it still took me a good hour or so of vacuuming and blowing with compressed air and flipping it over and back, to get all the media out of there. It just kept coming out of every little recess in the body.

Both doors have their share of dings, and there is a dent in the sail panel on the passenger’s side quarter that someone filled with bondo, rather than spend any time at all working w/hammer and dolly, so that won’t be too bad to fix.

I shot it with Variprime etching primer to keep it from rusting before I start the bodywork in earnest.

cars in bare metal always look cool. The body looks pretty clean now.

Nice! It looks like you're well on your way, Rob.

Thanks guys-

Yeah Bill, My wife would agree I'm "well on my way..."

...to the nut house! :D

Well, stop typing and get busy!!!! ;)

Actually I need to make some progress on Penny too.. I am so busy doing car crap for the mag that I don't have time to work on my own crap.. :(


Anyways.. cool teardown pics! what color??

Consider yourself lucky. At least it's not the dog house. ;)

Rob it looks like you got yourself one clean camaro.The last few I have seen bare were much rougher.