Matthew Abate
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From the album: Dottie, my '73
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From the album: Dottie, my '73
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From the album: Dottie, my '73
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From the album: Dottie, my '73
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From the album: Dottie, my '73
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From the album: Dottie, my '73
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From the album: Dottie, my '73
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From the album: Dottie, my '73
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From the album: Dottie, my '73
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From the album: Dottie, my '73
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From the album: Dottie, my '73
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From the album: Dottie, my '73
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From the album: Dottie, my '73
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From the album: Dottie, my '73
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From the album: Dottie, my '73
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From the album: Dottie, my '73
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From the album: Dottie, my '73
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From the album: Dottie, my '73
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From the album: Dottie, my '73
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From the album: Dottie, my '73
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Today's project time was spent at the DMV getting the title transferred. It only took 2.5 hours of line waiting, 15 minutes of standing there while my assigned bureaucrat talked to her colleague about how much her other colleagues suck at their jobs, and 5 minutes of actual processing. New record for me at that particular branch.
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Yeah, I've been looking into soda blasting because of that.
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Okay, I need some recommendations: Does anyone have a good northern NJ resource for welding in new floors and possibly rails? I want to start looking into places now, because I want to have the place selected by the time I'm ready for the work to happen. I have considered learning how to weld and doing it myself, but this is something I think I want a pro to do. Does anyone have any recommendations for body shops who can media blast, epoxy prime, and paint the car? I've been looking into soda blasting because of the thinness of the metal, so I'm also looking for feedback on what people have had success with in that area. I'm also looking into doing the blasting myself. Looks like Harbor Freight has a unit for < $100.
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Yeah, I'm not mixing paint and spraying. Rattle can only in my garage. So the plan is sand the surface rust areas and spay self etching primer as I distmantle and hunt for cancer. Then get it media blasted, epoxy primed, and painted.
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We've been having quite a discussion in this thread about engines and rust and stiffening. I'm encouraging everyone to move it over here so people get to follow what I'm thinking and make suggestions. Also, I printed out the FSM, put it in sheet protectors and a 3 ring binder today. So I did actually work on the project, such as it is. You would not believe how long that took, but it was a nice way to skim the contents.