The Teardown Part 1

 

Starting to take the car apart to prepare it for media blasting.  Also a good opportunity to see what I'm up against...

 Nasty surprise #1 - The gas tank is shot.  I could almost push my thumb through the top of it, it was so rusted on the inside.  New gas tanks for this car can be purchased - for a price 

Some shots I took of things as I was dismantling so I can figure out how to put it back together when the time comes

Nasty Surprise #2 - A previous owner decided that he/she didn't like the bolted on fenders and had the fenders (front and rear) brazed on to the body of the car and bondo'd over.  Something I would have noticed when buying the car if I would have been more savvy.  It will be lots of extra work to put it back the way it should be.   Lots of rust and bad repairs on the fenders and elsewhere.

Nasty Surprise #2 Part #2 - The rear fenders are just as bad.  The repairs around the rear wheelwells are a real hack job.

Day 1

Day 1 - Into the Garage.  Stacked along the wall are about 10 more boxes of parts.  The car is complete and there is about another 1/2 a car in parts (note the extra hood off the side.) Also have two extra doors and extra trunk lid and lots of engine and suspension parts an extra wiring harness - 3 or 4 dashes etc. etc. 

Car was repainted red (badly) at some point.  the original color is kind of blueish grey

Decoding the VIN tag indicates the car was assembled in Canada at the Halifax assembly plant in 1964  One thing they did there that I have heard is put lots and lots of undercoating on the Canadian cars - this will be an issue because it all needs to come off before the car goes for media blasting.