Stephen Farrell's Journal

The 67 B was soda blasted to bare metal prior to it being painted a cpouple of years ago. A few months later the paint started dimpling or worse. Pretty disheartening on a $6000 paint job. It's now back in the body shop since March and is back to bare metal including removing the body filler. Apparently they forgot to appropriately prepare the body after soda blasting. I am not sure what that entails but I know is wasn't done correctly. Someone told the bodyshop owner it should have been cleaned with vinegar water prior to any of the filler & primer.
It will need a new engine installed or rebuilding the present engine as it was experiencing excessive blowback the last time I drove it. I spent at least $12,000 two years ago and it's just about back where I started. It's still all new underneath plus the interior was renewed but all that will be deteriorating while I start over. I can't throw much more money at it either.