I've got paint on the floor and varsol/thinner on a rag took it off but that wasn't after cure...maybe a piece of scotch brite and varsol/thinner magivered to a sponge mop...and of course...No smoking...door open...
When you are done wash the floor with muratic acid and water mix. Warning. It will rust everything not made out of concrete. Good idea to clean shop first.
I saved My Bacon!! Cleaned the wife’s parking Spot! Trial and error, but a combo of Jasco smeared one square at a time, with a wet Hot rag, and a little water as it thickens. Then use a bristle brush in circles, and keep add ing water to dilute it. Then Rinse several times with a mop!! A lot of work took about 2-1/2 hours, including trying several methods first!!!
THE 2 SHALL BECOME 1 SOON! Getting Closer!!! Now that the paint cured, I baked it with 2 radiator space heaters all night last night, it was like A Warm chic-key Incubator garage in there!!! The Darn Rattle Job turned out so nice, I'm not even gonna sand it! Im just gonna cut and buff the orange-y areas!! I can always Wet sand it later after the car is together and running!!! (I just wanna cruise Man!!!)
Just tell her to look at her beautiful reflection in that nice shiny new paint as she walks by and she will forget about looking at the floor.
She did say, wow you could see the house across the street in the paint!! I can’t believe how far spray can technology has come! All I know is a Rustoleum has my stock!!
Glad to hear you're not going to fake patina it. I looks great as is and you went to a ton of work to make it nice. It will patina itself and look good doing it. Be driving it this week end? Great job! Dave
Wife has been having me do too many honeydews on the last couple weekends!!! So I haven’t been able to sand and buff the paint!!! So I made a new metal toe board at work on breaks! To simulate the thickness of the wood and still be removable. The 8 BA flat head was rubbing on the back of the firewall and the tranny vent cover was rubbing on the wood, so now I got some space!!
Got the body inside and out all painted now!!! Just need to undercoat the floorboard on both sides and then I’m ready to put the body on the chassis! Yay!!
Try muriatic acid. Wife was also pissed. I painted my engine in the driveway and had ceramic engine enamel and black tractor Rustoleum drips, plus grease and rust stains. Cleaned up nice with stiff brush, then scrubbed with Dawn dish soap. She told me now I could do the rest of the driveway.
Been Busy! The body fell off the saw horse in the last pic. Luckily it landed on the front body mounts, just a stress crack in the bondo. But now the 33'Doll Is "Rick-a-fied!
On the Back stretch now! I do believe that the dashboard is the last thing to bead blast! I’m gonna have to to strip the doors, fenders, hood. But that should be pretty easy. It’s so cool taking apart this car and then finding brand-new metal and paint behind things! I stripped of gunk off of the windows regulators. And blast the paint off the door tins the intervennders and the rear pans that hold the regulators. And by golly those things were Zinc Plated back then!! The paint came off real easy and it was nice and Zinkee looking. The next thing is to finish the toe-board to set up the steering column and holes for the pedals so I have to strip the dash in order to mount it! Front seats are on order but back ordered till April at least. Getting excited!!!! Went with the wife to Joann’s hobby place found my door panel material black alligator awesome!!!
Great progress since cleaning the floors 33...well the precious part anyways...give her a big hug, they look after us...
The cardboard was rotten and mohair so I decided to just make them out of steel and go the industrial route gonna seal the edges and then rubber undercoat them to match the rest
Thanks! Yeah the wife ran out real quick when she heard all that banging!! She’s all I worry about you every time you’re out there!! what about the times when she’s not home?? Good Woman!
So… I preserved my Pops Wiring. Should I Make a Shadow box for his Birthday? Look closely…. There isn’t a fuse box….except for two fuses….. Maybe I’m going crazy maybe not… but… Doesn’t it look like one fuses jumped in the other ones not even hooked up? So there’s no fuses in this wiring whatsoever??? All I see is a junction block heat sink. Am I missing something?
Nope, he used the fuse block as a junction block. Remove the dark blue jumper, move the yellow wire to the other fuse. The light blue wire the power source for the fuses? Given the outstanding work you have done to this point I would give serious consideration to re-doing the wiring to prevent a possible fire. Time to do this is now. Understand your desire to "preserve" the original aspect but losing it all because of a "glitch" in the existing wiring makes no sense to me. Yes, it worked for years but, Murphy don't care about originality.
oh I wasn’t going to use it I did buy a 12 circuit Hotrod kit from speedway. I just wanted to save his work for “ art”maybe. He used to be so proud of us wiring jobs….that’s why I was wondering why in the hell is there no fuse box?
I used a boat circuit breaker board. Three breakers and a phone charger. Ya don't need no 12 circuits in a hot rod.
Welp got the body bolted down. And it sits flat... thank God!! Didn’t get damaged from the fall!! And I got the doors as aligned as I'm gonna get them! they have just been sprung so many times the hinge area on the door is starting to rip on the skin so I'm gonna have to beef it up and weld the skin and add a filler piece, straight to the hinge, and then just fill it. Its been welded before. It is what it is…at least the doors shut now pretty good and the gaps aren't too bad. Just need to fix a few dents also. It won’t be perfect but the cars not perfect anyway.
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