1970 L-78 Nova Restoration; Saga of The Green Bastard

[L78_Nova]

Sometime around end of March 2020 (as we were into the full Covid lockdown) a friend Dereck Glesby helped me drag the body out to Ken Kiernicki's shop to sandblast and prime the underside.
Car dropped off into Ken's blasting tent.



Suiting up



And away we go... This is very tough and dirty work !! I have a new appreciation for the industry. First off you can't see much out of that helmet never mind the weight and difficulty getting in and out of it. Once you start blasting there is also the dust cloud and having to drag around the hose.

Many stops, gear downs, inspections, suit-ups and re-starts !!

Complaining aside it was an awesome day with a few friends giving the project a nice kick forward ! And it turned out quite nice.

Ken owns a Carnival business called Wonder Shows. They typically fully rebuild and refinish a ride or two each year. the blasting equipment is very HD... The distance in the photo is pretty much the closest I dare got.







This is an example of Ken's Wonder Shows crew refinishing work. BIG job, stripped cab and all exterior down, lots of repairs/refreshing/upgrades and refinishing !!



Back around and into Ken's shop the following weekend for DP90 epoxy. First order of business blow gun, vacuum, roll over, repeat, repeat repeat.

Weld up a few little spot repairs and wipe down the underside and firewall with degreaser, repeat repeat, repeat until clean!





As Skee Lo would say "I wish I was a little bit taller....."

[Too Many Projects]

I hear ya on a hot, filthy friggen job !! I blasted the entire underside of my '66 Chevelle in my driveway with a little 100# pot blaster. I had 300# of sand and knew it wouldn't be enough, so put the car on a tarp. Good thing I did. Over the next 13 HOURS, I swept up that sand, screened it and ran it thru the pot so many times I lost count. As you say, the overalls and helmet get really hot and all I had was a few bottles of water and a couple cheese sticks all day. The sun was going down at 9pm when I finally pulled the car back in the shop and cleaned up. NEVER again. I'll take it somewhere and pay for the job.





Rolled it out the next day to clean and prime.

[67since67]

Those don't look like MN floors!! Southern car?

[Too Many Projects]

Originally Posted by 67since67

Those don't look like MN floors!! Southern car?

Complete AMD 1 piece trunk floor. Left front floor complete pan and a section of the right front pan were replaced. IOWA car !! that ended up in Pensacola and I bought it from there.