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Old 03-21-2024, 07:22 PM
TimG TimG is offline
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Default 1967 Corvette with orange chassis

I purchased this Corvette from a friend that's on this site. Tim did a great job of representing the car and I was very happy when it arrived. One thing he made clear was that sometime in its life the entire undercarriage was painted orange and to correct this, someone painted black over the orange. This sounded like a nightmare, but I liked the car so much, I moved forward.

Here are some before and after of the chassis after 80 hours and lots of paint stripper, lacquer thinner, steel wool and mineral spirits. Everything took four coats of stripper to get the black and orange off. I was able to preserve much of the originality of the chassis.

Ice blasting would have been easier, but I figured it would have cost about $4,000.
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