Project Obsession

[Todd in vancouver]

FINALLY! the car is flipped on the rotisserie and I've started working on the bottom of the car. It's another step in the progress of the car because now that I'm working on the bottom I will be starting to get the car ready for the rear suspension and mini tub install which means I'm actually starting on the assembly of the car. Everything up to this point has been about taking the car apart, planning and prepping.


From this point forward my work will be about fitting and assembling the car. It's really great to have reached this point and it feels like getting a jolt of motivation. Here are a couple pictures of the car flipped on its side;



Wow I had no idea how much work it was going to be to clean the undercoat off the bottom of my '67. I'm using these to chip off the undercoat and a heat gun when needed to get the hard spots clean. It's actually chipping off easy but it as a big chunk of area to cover with these.



I've also found some damage under the undercoat in my floor as it looks like the car may have at one time drove over something and damaged the bottom.



Overall the floor is not bad but the driver side is not looking great. I'll have to decide if Im going to put some time into fixing them or just cut them out and replace the drivers side.



Here are some new parts for the mini-tub that I picked up from a local supplier who has a good amount of goodies in stock and giving me some decent pricing.



Hoping tomorrow to get the car flipped around and I'll be starting the other half of the bottom. Living the dream my friends, living the dream


AND THAT'S IT! All of you are now up to date on where I am as of today. I hope you all have enjoyed my 6 months worth of work in two days of down loading. Now things will go at my natural pace which will be painfully slow compared to what I've been posting. Thanks all for looking and please feel free to post any comments or ideas as I gladly accept all the help I can get. That includes scraping undercoat so feel free to come on over and grab a chisel.