"Arizona-San Jose Style" 64 VERT...Project Rust BOMB !!

Thought you guys might want to follow along...Events/Pics from couple months back to present:
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THE SAGA BEGINS: (Back home in San Jo)

Met up with Tony a while back at a show (haven't seen him in years...customer/buddy from way back in the 90's)...ask me to check out his '64.
He wanted some patch work...I told him, this thing is pretty bad, so a full sand-blast was in order.....
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When it first arrived:
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After removing the doors and stripping the firewall area, I built these quick door openning braces to reinforce the body before removing from chassis:
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Some cuts had to be made to remove the body...this thing is pretty bad...but repairable...
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Tony brought over his trailer, and I loaded it up for the next morning drop off:
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Upon arrival at the Blaster, they carefully helped us out with their long forks:
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Here's the final pic untill they gave us a call:
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Back with some "After-Blast" pics....these are little over 2 weeks old...just now getting around to post....
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Media blasting doesn't remove bondo or rubber under-coating....too bad:
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All the rotted areas were just masked with glass or bondo....GHETTO !!!
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Like I said...wish all this would of come off:
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Rack it's sitting on come thru floor:
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........and it's off to get primed untill I'm ready for it:
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cool. not too bad. I love the braces you made for the doors! great idea!

 

Had to man....even with a solid vert, to keep the body from buckling.....let alone this s#it hole !!!