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Once the car was a roller again, progress slowed down. The plan was to start body work, but as I began that I also bought a new house with a garage that became a massive project ( and still is to this day.) the house had a 24x24 garage with a bad roof on it. We talked to a few contractors and after finding one we like expanded the garage to 24x48, leaving the original walls to create a "clean" and a "dirty" side. it took a few months but the car finally got moved over from my parents to the new garage and I could resume body work.

The body of the car was very good, except for some rust in the rockers that I patched. I had painted the car before but being young and not experienced in anything but collision work on minivans and daily drivers, the panel fitment and gaps were lacking. So nearly all the focus was spent of making the car straight and fitting as a whole. I didnt strip the car back to bare metal because I knew what was under the previous paint job I did was still solid. Around that time I started to follow Tyler and Adam Krause, who are known for doing work for shops like Mirandabuilt, David Lane, Andy Leach and more. Tyler posts a lot of information, and I read it over and over and applied it to this car. In its previous life I had bonded a 4" cowl scoop to the hood, but it just wasnt the look I was going for this time around. I found an incredibly rare 67 ss427 hood in Long Island, one of only around 2100 built. I also spent a ton of time making the windshield and backglass moldings fit, even had to weld and file them to fix the shape of them. After the body work was completed the I put the car in epoxy followed by five heavy coats of polyester primer.