The rear suspension was pretty well sorted at this point and I needed to move on to the car itself. I had begun scraping the existing undercoating off of the drivers side wheel well back in March of 2017, but that’s where I stopped.
In May of 2017 I dropped the fuel tank and got back under the car to continue removing the undercoating and it was just as brutal as I remembered it to be. This took on and off the better part of an entire month and solidified the need for a rotisserie on my next build for sure.
After I’d removed the majority of the undercoating, there was some surface rust, but this was nothing compared to the front end of the car.
It also was nice to see that there were only a handful of trouble spots that needed attention and most of these were known beforehand. Like the rear quarter panel directly under the antenna.
Although one spot that showed itself only after I removed the undercoating was right behind the seats, under the storage bins. But it didn’t look ridiculously bad, so I was in good spirits.
Now that I had the undercoating scraped off, and I unfortunately couldn’t fit the car in the sandblast cabinet, I had to break out the wire wheel yet again. This too took a considerable amount of time.
When I finally had the rear mostly cleaned up, some areas hinted at repaired rear end damage that I was going to have to take a closer look at in the future.
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