hood parts came to us in primer but had to be stripped as it was improperly applyed for the application.talked to the customer today and discussed the cars history aswell as the issues of the undercoating and use of gloss black. he mentioned that there was some discusion and deliberation on the subgect at the judging training lecture at the packards international most recent meet where he and my associate attended a month or so ago in california. he figures after the first 10,000 miles with a bit of road grime on it the chassis will take on the semigloss look and he likes the look of a highly detailed chassis. as for the history he belives the car was origionally delivered in newyork area or coneticut.it has been off the road since 62 and the first 24 years are a bit of a mystery other than it is belived the origional owner lived in new york and had a summer estate in coneticut.

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i took reference pics and individual hardware pics for each component, it is all logges on a small porable harddrive which i plug into my laptop which sits in whichever assembly bay i am working in as i do about 3-5 cars simutainiusly, i also have a 58 eldorado bairitz on the go and am finnishing up a torino, mustang, and camaro, and have cars waiting in the wings to be started. and yes a number of my customers have oil companys and such.

got the firewall all primed and prepped and ready for paint tomorrow.

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got the third all apart and it apears to be in prety good shape with the exception of the 4 pinion thrust washers and the differential thrust washers were toast.

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finnished rebuilding the steering crank

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more shiny chassis stuff.

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we tend to give most cad plated parts a quick blast with wurth aluminum spray, (not paint-99.9 percent pure aluminum)
as freash cad starts to blacken in the first few years and this has prooven to hold up and is near identical in apearance. last pic is straight cad beside cal plus aluminum spray.

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got all the chassis hardware back from being cad plated

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new bushings and thrust berings and such

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new kingpins

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