The Body Continues (finally)!
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Well, Schnitzel didn't make it to the body shop for paint in October. I got very sick with the flu and had to stop, by the time I was feeling better the weather had turned very sanding unfriendly.
Then our bathroom (we only have one) decided to have a total meltdown. The toilet broke and was leaking right over Schnitzel in the garage! And the shower was leaking into the walls. The floor, ceiling and all the walls came out and a major project began. Schnitzel got left behind until April when the bathroom was finished. Then, the weather turned nice and I got to sand on him for about a hour on three separate days, and 7 hours to finish the body shell on the day before Memorial Day. Too bad a cranky neighbor thought I made too much noise and shouldn't be allowed to ruin his Sunday....
So on May 29th, I finished the sanding with the air sander on the body, taking it down to the original metal. I guess my neighbor will be happy its all hand sanding from here on. Schnitzel is naked now, and there was amazingly little body work done in the past on him. Just two tiny spots of filler on the driver's side about a half and inch in size and a little spot on the rear apron also. I have two small dings on the roof to fill, one small one on the front passenger quarter panel and one tiny ding on the front and rear apron each.

Schnitzel had a few rust spots that will have to be treated with POR-15, the metal is still solid and just need to be cleaned up, there is one hole in the left side you can see all the spots in the above pictures that will need to be repaired. There is one more hole on the underside of the right heater channel up in the front about the same size near a bolt hole. The rest is good metal.
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