Next comes the soda blasting to find out what we really have here.....The quarters were in fact rust free and were original Ford replacement quarters....but the swiss cheese that appeared in the wheel housings had been packed full of filler and tar like thick black stuff and undercoating. The floor pans showed all the brass in all it's glory. The fenders were all metall too but they were pretty beat and had a lot of filler work up high hiding prior damage...no attempt had been made to do any metal work...just slap in the filler and smooth it out. The doors had rust on the inside frame and had filler in them in the corners...not sure how he got those magnets to stick there. So in the end it will be new doors and fenders. The quarters were kind of butchered up where it met the convertible top area so we'll replace those as well.
There was significant expense in purchasing this car but at this point what do you do?...kind of stuck here so it's off to put it on the frame table.
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Paul
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