Archive: October 2008

Car is back… !!

The car was delivered back to me early this evening, looking decidedly better.   So, after sandblasting and priming, this is what the body now looks like:   Inside:   Dash, roof and the see-through rear end:   The underside:   Hood, boot and cowl:   Overall, I’m pretty pleased with the results of the sandblasting, certainly a lot easier to work with now, and nicer to look at. There…
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Car is gone…

The car was picked up last night (Tuesday) and taken to the shotblasters. They should be working on it today (Wednesday) and deliver it back tomorrow (Thursday). Quite exciting.   Though it is a little sad to see the empty spot on the driveway:…
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More AutoTwirlin’ fun.

Rotating the body 90 degrees made me realise the body on the AutoTwirler was acting more like a pendulum than a rotisserie – in that it didn’t want to rotate through many degrees with ease. This meant the center of gravity of the body shell was not aligned with the pivot point of the AutoTwirler. Today I corrected this by raising the body about a foot higher than previously… now…
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AutoTwirler in action.

Not much work is being done to the car lately… Anyway, today I rotated the body shell 90 degrees just for the sake of it…     Hopefully now I can arrange an appointment with the shot-blasters and by the end of the month, or sooner, the body will all be clean metal and paint-primed… ready to start some actual repair work, instead of just pulling/cutting everything off the car.…
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Et voila…

The adapter brackets for the AutoTwirler finally arrived (last week) and today was nice out, so, I got round to mounting the body. Took a while but got it done… First, I had to roughly set up the AutoTwirler with the two ends at the the front and back of the car with the middle bar connecting the two whilst the body was still on blocks. Then, using a mix…
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