Summer stuff around the claim

I want a shop like that!!! Keep up the posts! My morning Body builder!

 

Glad you enjoy the posts there Norm....I was actually wondering about posting as me stuff is not wagon stuff and the deal I had for a wagon has not came together. More cleaning up on the frame today...dirty work....and then will get some frame paint onto it....Then do up the brake and fuel lines....not sure what to do about the exhaust.....Then be time to start dismantling the convertible... not sure what surprises the body will hold around the frame mounts but only one way is to just move forward and then fix.....Not doing anything to the outside body of the car as Josey just want's to run the car.....and have fun....

 

Not to worry about contaminating us with non-wagon info. 75% of a wagon is a non-wagon!

What I see is all the nice, dry, well-lit space you've got to 'play' in.

What do you use for Frame Paint?

 

A couple of the fullas have used a frame paint that you give it a real good wire brush and it converts the rust and does not need to be primed..I will give it a try on this one....I prefer to sandblast and go that route but in this case the frame is in excellent condition and only a little surface rust on it so will try it...Let you know more after I dig into it further...I am not restoring the car at this point...It just to make it driveable...The frame in it is totaly rotten at the rear torque box section....The rear pan of the convtible is good under the tailights and I have seen many of them rusted through there...There is some rust I can see on the driver's side wheel well which I will fix when I have the gas tank and frame out of it...It is a question of how much rust I will find when I get into it but will just keep moving forward...

 

Oh yeah, like that POR15 stuff. Gotcha.

 

FF, what do you think about this Paint article? It's cross-linked from another one of his about refinishing an old-school steering wheel, but in this one, he discusses spray guns and compressors too?
http://www.thebugshop.org/bsfqpnt.htm

Here's the steering wheel article - pretty decent:
http://www.thebugshop.org/bsfqstrg.htm

And here's one on a pearlescent steering wheel for old pickups:
http://www.classictrucks.com/tech/0705ct_steering_wheel_restoration/index.html

Do you shop the steering wheels out or do your own?

 

I enjoy seeing progress on peoples projects, wagon or not. Besides, I was born in 1979. I never got to grow up with or even really see 50s, 60s, and 70s cars growing up in Chicago in the 1980s and 1990s.

So keep on posting, I'm learning a lot from you and a great deal of people on this board.