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I spent a few hours chemically stripping the paint off of the driveshaft and then polishing it with the coarse wirebrush disc on my bench grinder. It worked very well. The finish matched the shiny areas under the stripes exactly. I then restriped it with one shot striping enamel and a brush. I let the paint dry overnight and then installed the U-joints and sprayed the whole assembly with the wax based Nyalac metal preservative. It works pretty well at keeping natural metal from rusting.


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Steve this is incredible work. I am blown away. Geez where the hell have I been?


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Steve... I can have my cars at your door step... ahh... tonight if you want 'em? (all of them...)
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Thanks for the moral support. It's amazing what you can do when you don't have the cubic $$$ to pay someone else to do it for you. I am running out of things to do now. Hopefully ENOCH can take the car soon to do the body and paint. I spent today under the car installing the driveshaft and then cleaning the rest of the underside with lacquer thinner and rags. Looks great from the floor looking up! (I don't have a lift, so it's all cold concrete here in Jersey). Thanks again y'all.
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The one interesting thing I have noticed after the hours spent under this car, is that it appears that the factory undercoated the cars PRIOR to painting them. If you look at the wheelwell shots you can see the areas where the undercoating has chipped away: you see red primer and not white body color. (See the photo of the rear frame rail with the big red section where a large piece of stray undercoating fell off during the cleaning process)

So I guess if you are correctly restoring one of these 2nd generation F-body cars, the wheel wells should have body color overspray on top of the black undercoating (rather ugly in my opinion).
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Steve, Not sure I agree 100% with your statement about the undercoat before the color. Here is a picture of my 70Z it's unrestored and original paint (hugger orange) norwood car. All I did was clean and new exhaust, but you can see all the undercoat patterns.
I've enjoyed following this post, you've done a Great job and I love all the detail. Keep up the good work and continue to post the pictures.


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