Thread: Got started on the Body of my 70 Ford pick up.

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Got my son home and got him to sand the bottom 4 or 5 inches all the way around the bottom of the truck. He ground all the molding clips off first since the molding is not going back on anyway. The two rust whole's that I knew were behind the molding quickly turned in to 5 hole's after the paint was sanded off. As much as I don't want to take the truck down to bare metal I think it has to be. The top coat of blue paint was applied over the origanal
yellow paint with out any prep work it looks like. The top paint is chipping and flaking off all over the truck. Also either paint was put on very thick because just as soon as you touch it wih the DA sander it's through the blue paint and half way through the yellow. Though that should make it easier to strip it down to bare metal. Like I said the strip around the bottom of the truck is alrady down to bare metal, so we will cut out the rust and treat the surrounding area with some Skyco Ospho. Then we will sand it off and do that a couple of times. Monday I will have to go and pick up some sheet metal to weld back in. Then we will throw some Dura bond over all the molding holes and the welded in plates and finish sanding the rest of the truck down.
Right now we only have two other parts the realy need fixed that I know of.
One is right on the body line of the bed where it looks like something heavy hit it, from inside the bed. That looks like a easy fix. The front hood has a wriple in it, on a body line. I think this is the one, that will try our skills.
Anyway we made good progress on the real fist day of working on it.
Kurt