Day 29... More Paint Stripping

Mike spent a good part of the day yesterday out in the garage. I spent that time doing a project in the house, but made sure to sneak out and snap a few pictures as he worked. He started out by stripping the paint from the new drivers side door. He was able to get it completely stripped and ready to be painted.

He then did some scraping and grinding on the undercarriage of the car as well. I love his breathing mask. In fact, it was making me nervous every time I would walk in to take a picture. He would stop grinding before I would approach, but it still made me nervous thinking all the gunk going into my lungs for the short time I was in there. I am glad he wears a mask, or I imagine his lungs would be a nice shade of red by now from all the red paint particles.

He then decided he would continue working on the passenger door. He got most of the paint stripped from the passenger side door. He still has to take the guts out of it, and do a little more stripping, but it is probably 95% stripped.

Sadly, it is rusted through on the passenger door in the bottom corner. Mike assured me that it wont be that big of a deal fixing it. Metal will be able to be grafted in. It wont have the stamped look the metal in that area has, but the weather stripping should cover it. It is crazy how the rust shows up in places you wouldn't expect. I thought we were done finding rusted out spots on the car, but I guess not. At least this one should be a pretty easy fix.

So we are now looking other places for the floor. We are a bit tired of waiting for it. So Mike is going to make some calls tomorrow and find the best place to order it from. We will end up spending more for the floor than this place we were going through, but not much we can do. If we ever want to get the car done, we need to get the floor here so we can work on getting it in.

It is exciting seeing things happen. My dining room (where we are storing all the car parts) is pretty full. It will also be exciting when the new floor gets put in. That will be a milestone for the car since everything we are doing at this point is tearing it down. So to finally start the process of building it back up will be pretty exciting!