Picked up this Original Paint 69 recently

[Lynn]

Originally Posted by firstgenaddict

I have discussed it at length with people who have done it...
They say to do it without removing the body from the frame and with mindset of saving original paint - is about a 100-150 hour job.
The entire headlamps assemblies must be removed and removing the radiator and radiator support allow a heck of a lot more room.
Doing it with the car inverted or at least rotated on it's side would surely cut off a significant number of hours.

My investigation revealed the same. I am replacing a rusty frame anyway, so figured it would be best to do it with the body off the frame.