With the rear quarters done I moved to the firewall. Here it is stripped of all paint.
The rusted areas underneath were sandblasted.
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The bare metal was orbital sanded and primed. I seamsealed only the areas that were sealed
by the factory.
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Here it is again all painted the original Blue Mist. I used a basecoat/clearcoat system. It
took sometime getting the paint crossmatched.
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What saved this car from being a total lost cause was the fact that the entire underbody was
undercoated by the dealer. I scraped all of the undercoat and sandblasted the surface rust.
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The underside was then primed and painted the original semi-flat black.
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I primed the rust-free floorpan with red oxide primed, just like the factory originally did.
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Here's the dash in primer just before I painted it.
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The dash shown painted here is really starting to look new again. The blue is actually a textured
paint. I used a Ditzler Texture additive to get the original texture, however it took me two tries
to do it.
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Here is the dash fully restored. It looks just like it did in 1959.
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