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pcelenta · Joined: 16 Feb 2007 Posts: 546 Location: long island,ny

Full gut out to a tub. The madness begins! Full restoration of a very rare car.

ideola · Joined: 01 Oct 2004 Posts: 15550 Location: Spring Lake MI

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Grenadiers · Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 4:41 am Post subject:

Cool. Get the battery tray fixed yet?
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pcelenta · Joined: 16 Feb 2007 Posts: 546 Location: long island,ny

soon dave...we are gonna use your donor piece for sure. mine is just too thin to patch and the level of resto warrants a clean arizona piece!

kcoyle · Joined: 15 Jan 2011 Posts: 712 Location: Long Island, NY

Gonna be looking good for sure!!
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pcelenta · Joined: 16 Feb 2007 Posts: 546 Location: long island,ny

in time kevin. hey you going up to old westbury gardens for the concourse Sept 27th?

kcoyle · Joined: 15 Jan 2011 Posts: 712 Location: Long Island, NY

I have to see. I'm coaching fall baseball this year and I have both kids games that day starting at 1130. I'd love to stop by for a bit.
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TJC · Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2015 12:32 am Post subject:

Ahh...I can relate to that "bare tub" starting point! Enjoy and take plenty of photos along the way.
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pcelenta · Joined: 16 Feb 2007 Posts: 546 Location: long island,ny

rhinoplasty begun: too many bumps bruises and rust to save

morghen · Joined: 21 Jan 2005 Posts: 9071 Location: Romania

Oh wow thats rusty !
That nose panel was surely replaced during her lifetime as it would be impossible that the nose panel rusted like that and the metal around it not.
So the nose panel was probably replaced and wirebrushed with no rust protection after.
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pcelenta · Joined: 16 Feb 2007 Posts: 546 Location: long island,ny

nahh. no evidence the nose was ever replaced. all the spot welds were original and no evidence of burn marks from prior spot welds. What I suspect is that because this is a very early turbo the nose panels were not yet galvanized. Still have to do some poking around on the panel to see..but that is the theory.

pcelenta · Joined: 16 Feb 2007 Posts: 546 Location: long island,ny

here's some before and after waterboarding...I mean steam cleaning.

pcelenta · Joined: 16 Feb 2007 Posts: 546 Location: long island,ny

after waterboarding:

pcelenta · Joined: 16 Feb 2007 Posts: 546 Location: long island,ny

so now we have an idea what was under all that dirt and crust. Some things to note. my initial belief was that the modifications for the CGT flares was achieved by cutting the outer quarter low and the outer wheel tub high then rolling the quarter over the tub. Now that we are in there it is clear that entirely new outer wheel tubs were welded in to accomodate the flares. as most of you know that is a lot a work and not typically how we see CGT flares done. If you look at the after pictures you can see that the new outer wheel tubs were coated in a very tough black undercoating. more finding to follow.

pcelenta · Joined: 16 Feb 2007 Posts: 546 Location: long island,ny

media blasting begun and some interesting finds:

look carefully and you can see 0099. the darker square part covers the 99 and was where the washer tank rubbed away the paint.

First off, these early turbos were "chosen" to be turbos early on in the raw body stage from amongst the NA cars and before the chassis number was stampped into the shock tower and the body plate added. Both the chassis number and the turbo indicator appear to have been made by a marker. It is unclear if this was on to the raw galvanized steel or on top of the primer but this was under the silver basecoat clear and became apparent upon media blastic.