New Project - 1960 Cadillac Coupe DeVille Resurrection

[TrevorK]

Coating the body with epoxy:

[TrevorK]

Painting the frame with Eastwood's frame paint, including the inside of it so that it's totally protected:

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Not sure why the photos are getting rotated, they aren't like that on my computer...

[DeVille68]

nice! That is a lot of work! Keep going! 
How did you get rid of all that sandblasting media?
How did you paint the frame from the inside?
Best regards,
Nicolas

[59-in-pieces]

Trevor,
After media blasting, nothing stands out more to me as a milestone is wrapping the body in primer.
It just makes it look like a car again.
Take a deep breath and hit again for the next steps of the adventure.

Have fun,
Steve B.

[TrevorK]

nice! That is a lot of work! Keep going! 
How did you get rid of all that sandblasting media?
How did you paint the frame from the inside?
Best regards,
Nicolas

Getting rid of all of the media is hard - vacuum, compressed air, repeat about 5,000 times and then still have sand coming out of it.

Eastwood sells a product to paint the inside of the frame.  It's basically an aerosol with a long hose with a spay end on it that you insert in the holes of the frame and move around to get coverage.

[TrevorK]

Trevor,
After media blasting, nothing stands out more to me as a milestone is wrapping the body in primer.
It just makes it look like a car again.
Take a deep breath and hit again for the next steps of the adventure.

Have fun,
Steve B.

Thanks Steve. I'm so far behind on updating this thread - the primer was probably sprayed a year and a half or even two years ago!

[TrevorK]

The front seat redone.  It came out great (plus a pic to remind you what it looked like before):

[TrevorK]

Engine back on the frame and front suspension redone:

[TrevorK]

Stripping the underside to bare metal and covering with Raptor bedliner.  The car had a heavy undercoat, so this was a huge, time intensive job.  I even ended up hiring a local kid to help for a few hours as I'm getting too old to lay on the cold concrete for hours and days on end.

[TrevorK]

Putting the body back on the frame:

[TrevorK]

Doing some more patch work on an area by the rear window that was rusted out pretty badly.  Because of the contours of this area I wanted to try to track down a patch panel. I ended up getting one from a guy in Sweden - he had a dry Arizona car that had been used as a parts car, so this patch travelled from Arizona, to Sweden and then to me in Canada to find its way onto my car.