In late August 2015, I decided it was the 240’s turn to get worked on and placed her on wooden jack stands to get a better view and more access to the underside of the car.
A little history on the car
So here’s the backstory on this Z. It’s a three owner car, me being the third and when I spoke to the first owner (the guy I bought it from provided me with his info) he mentioned that his wife had the car repainted white from its original lime green and had the interior reupholstered with cloth back in the 80’s. He made it sound as if this were a gift from his wife, but as I’ve found much later in this process, there was accident damage to at least the rear passengers side of the car and also damage to the front passengers side. More on this later. I believe this is what prompted the repaint.
And although he claims it was garage kept in California until arriving in Illinois in the mid 2000’s, the car eventually fell victim to rust. I’m assuming he had someone weld in reinforcing brackets and layers of steel over the rusted out weak spots. Which over the years rusted out even more. It was a mess.
After assessing the problem areas, I began removing all the ancillary pieces from the engine so it could be taken out.
In hindsight I would have approached this very differently. In my mind I thought I could address different portions of the car, one section at a time until complete. Between not completely knowing the severity of the issues I would find and the lack of experience I possessed, this has turned out to make much more work for myself than there needed to be.
If I had to do it over again, I would have disassembled the entire car, meticulously bagged and tagged all it’s parts and had it media blasted all at once, then went from there. I’m currently too far down the rabbit hole to turn back now, so it is what it is. You live, you learn.
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