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Teardown


Shawn Piper

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Although the car is good at 20ft, a closer inspection revealed some expected rust and a lot of deferred maintenance.  The car's last paint job had many drips and tons of overspray.  Every piece of trim had dents and scratches. Given the car's condition (which is actually remarkable at 190k miles and 50 years) and my project goals, I decided to proceed with a full restoration. The first step was tearing it down.  

 

I removed the interior at home and scraped out the sound deadening material. Then had the car transported to So Cal Paintworks for complete mechanical disassembly.  

 

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Given the car's multiple owners and many modifications, I was surprised by how many holes and cuts were made to the body. Example being this notch made for the AC installation or this hole drilled in the headlight bucket for the car alarm switch.  

 

 

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