My '67 Rogue Project.

 

The most gratifying task was getting all of the dents (and kinks) out of the stainless.  Basically it turned out to be pretty simple... but VERY time consuming, I know I spent more than 6 hours on a couple of the pieces... and I can certainly understand why it's SOOOOOO expensive to have this done professionally!

 

Basically, I started with a piece of 400 grit sand-paper wrapped around a small (1" x 1" x 4") block of wood, and gently sanded over any of the "flaws", high-lighting the extent of the depression. Then I used a small piece of oak (1" x 1/8" x 3"), and gently tapped on the indentions from the back-side... and kept repeating this process until it was smooth.  Then I "fired up" the buffing wheel, and polished that one little spot.  And then continued this process all of the way down the piece.

 

All together, at 3-4 hours each night, it took nearly a month to complete all of the pieces.

 

So, this week-end I built a paint-booth, and some racks (out of some old saw-horses, galvinized-pipe, and water-line insulation) to set the fenders, doors, hood, and trunk-lid on... only one at a time will fit in the booth (either the car on the rotiserrie, or the racks) but that's ok.

 

Wish me luck!!!

 

 

 

 

 

This week-end I took care of the inside of the two front fenders, here's how they came out:

 

 

Moving on to the inside of the trunk-lid and inner doors next week-end...