Hacking into it again.

Demoralising though it may be to discover copious amount of rust spots that the previous owner lied about, it is an inevitability in of car restoration.  My previous cheap drill had died during my last effort at the task at hand and not wanting to leave it sitting in gloom and doom, (due to being low on cash) today I decided that I’d buy a replacement cheap piece of crap drill to continue my effort of wire brushing all the paint and rust off the surface of my C110.  ($19.97, cheers Mitre 10 Mega)

Firstly I’ll show where I left off last time.  After the drill gave up and on the first decent sunny day, I rolled the car outside the garage and started to pull the interior out so I could get to some holes from the inside (Doesn’t sound good does it?  It’s not… trust me.)

Oxidisation, it takes my metal!

It’s a little hard to see (even when you click the image for a slightly larger version.  You’ll have to take my word for it when I say that there’s holes along the hip line, down the bottom of the quarters, at the bottom of the doors, along the guttering and across the top of the windscreen.  Thank-fully (as shown previous) the holes in the sills are minimal, far less than I expected.

Here’s a few quick close-ups of how it looked after the brush had done it’s job;

Abortion of a Door Mirror Attachment.

You can almost see few mm thick layer of bog that cover this up, unlike most of the other hidden holes, these particular ones were a bit of a surprise to me as they hadn’t actually started to rust.  One out of the million.  I wish they were all at least a little like this, just so they weren’t so horrible to think about.  Sadly, they were not.

Door Skin Rust

Sill & Door Rust

Sill is minimal, skin is minimal, the door however had some weird rubbery …thing… in it, as well as hairy bog as well as the filler bog over the top.  Would have cost less to get it welded, but hey.   Bodge jobs are fun, right?

That pretty much brings you up to the point of where it was today, before I bought a replacement drill and got stuck in…    …again

Before I had to leave for work, a few hours of drill time (with breaks for a cup of tea or two, obviously) resulted in this…

Metal, I see you!

Shiny it is. With no more secrets!

Obviously this has also now been covered in Etch Primer and I await tomorrow to get the last of the sill cleared to see where I stand in that regard.  Hopefully the same but with less paint.  I guess I’ll find out soon enough.  Then it’s onto the rear…  DUN DUN DUUUUUUUN.  Trouble, no doubt.

-Michael