Other than the quarter panel, things were looking good. Overall, the floors were in good shape, with just a few pin holes that started to show up after the asphalt sound deadener was removed. If you have not had the pleasure of peeling up the 1500 sound deadener, you are in for a real treat. It is probably 3-times as thick as the stuff they used in later cars, and it is still soft and gooey, not hard and brittle like the later stuff they used. The dry ice with a hammer trick won’t work on this stuff. You have to knuckle down, hit it with a heat gun and a scraper, and have fun… Continue reading

Amazing what a little dunk will do. Continue reading

Metalworks has added photographs of our 1500 project going into the sauce here. Continue reading

This is the glamorous part of auto restoration (if you like coughing up black crud like you have been smoking 50 packs-a-day for the last 41 years!) Continue reading

The rocker panels were junk on this car. We cut them out before going to the dipper, and it was a good thing too, as they were full of crud and rust. 95% of the rocker was cut out of the passenger side and fortunately, the sheet metal was good on the rocker backing plate. Continue reading