To media blast or not???

[Lee Weber]

Going to echo a thought Dave referenced wrt soda blasting. It’s great for use on areas not needing any aggressive application...but if you need more, you'll need another shot of media to get out all the "bad spots." We Soda’d the car on the first pass but had to come back and hit it with more aggressive stuff in the “ruff” spots. Just a thought.
WRT the car being "mint" under paint...hmmm. We have a CA car, never left the sunshine state and was in original paint and looked solid all around….check out the latest edition of Chevy Punch to see what they found when they blasted away all the paint. Really only one way to ensure you’re addressing all body/structural aliments in your car while restoring, and that’s to maximize the break down/stripping efforts of your restoration project. Six years ago I did a 68 Chevelle resto. The shop chem stripped 90% of the car but used a DA to knock down the roof area and sail area. (It was a v-top car). Looked “solid when we were ready for paint. After a year I got some bubbling right along the V-top molding seems.