Getting ready for painting

I've reached a tedious stage in the restoration. Most of the welding that remains is fiddly, and the paint needs to come off completely (the shell was resprayed at some point with defects under the original paint.

The big bits have been positioned in the engine bay. I've still got to do a lot of the little bits which will probably happen over winter as painting can't start until the weather warms up a little in the spring.

I'm keen to drill all the new little holes that will be needed and weld up the ones that won't be needed before painting.

I'm planning to strip the whole shell down to bare metal before painting. Paint stripping is a great distraction from doing some of the other fiddly bits, and I've found a really quick way of doing it - see paint stripping with clean & strip discs.

At some point soon the body will be removed from the chassis so I can get the underneath into bare metal.