Car in Tow

When doing a frame off restoration the obvious thing to do is get the frame off.  Oddly,  this didn’t immediately occur to me.

I pulled the engine first, oil gushing from the rear main seal like the Exxon Valdez had just hit the reef.

I actually began sand blasting the frame before realizing that I was insane.

The car had never been totally reassembled after the last stab at restoration and there wasn’t much holding it together.  With the exception of the rear floor area which had been brazed together back in the 1980’s everything else was only loosely  bolted to the chassis.

As is often the case it came apart easier than it will go back together.  I left the suspension intact to make it easier to move out of the workshop onto the driveway for blasting.