Over the past 3 weeks we have stripped it down, sandblasted, and then sanded the body. All rust has been removed. The sandblasting process was quite an adventure. As my friends know, I don't deal well
with tangled cords and in order to sand blast I was made to don an air fed helmet with a hose attached to the back of it. This device made it very difficult to see, and impossible to hear or be heard, and also attached me to a big heavy air hose. Then in order to operate the sandblaster itself, I had to carry around three additional hoses. The sandblaster that I rented worked poorly at best, and not at all at worst. I spent most of my day wrestling and untangling hoses trapped in what resembled a moon suit. This was a trying day, but ultimately successful. No videos of my spazzing out in my moon suit for you all, but it was a close call. The rust damage had to be fixed with bondo...I know, I know, bondo is a crappy solution, and i should weld in new panels etc etc. Well, in this case I just simply didnt have the time, and to be honest i think that the bondo looks quite nice. Priming will be done tomorrow, and then its on to drivetrain components.
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