Cleaning a Body

[John Duzac]

Grant, Dwight and everyone who reads this post: When you are building a car you are trying to do as good of a job as possible. When me and my partner was building our Camaro, it was not an over night project. Instead, it took a year of working on it every hour we could. We started with a good rust free car from Roswell, New Mexico. When we looked under the car for the first time, we were surprised to see no rust! Best of all, very little undercoating. I mentioned pride in an earlier post. In order for the project to come out well, it takes pride as a motivater. I Invite anyone to look under my car and see what hard work can do and of course, Pride!

[Jesse Knapp]

Dwight and anyone else attempting to clean the underside of their car(s). The undercoating on these old cars had asbestos in it. Try to keep the dust down. Wear dust masks or maybe wet it down, especially if you're under the car. I spent many hrs. under my 69 camaro with wire wheels, putty knives, etc. I was black each time I came out. I finished the underside and painted it glossy black. About a couple yrs. later I read an article warning about the asbestos in these products. Wish I'd known about it then. I assume they quit using asbestos in undercoatings when it became known for health hazards. I know it was in the coatings on the 60's and 70's era cars.