Been a while since my last update, so while I was off a few days for the New Year holiday, I thought I'd take a minute and update the blog....
Got the Tomato moved back into position, up on jack stands and pulled the front fenders back off to gain access to the firewall and front suspension....
Looking at the back side of the front fenders, I realized the difference between a bodyshop and a custom car shop... ATTENTION TO DETAIL!!! There were several areas on the back side of the fenders that got very little to no paint....
and overspray onto finished surfaces....
but what really knocked the wind outta my sails was the condition of the underside of the car when I crawled under it! The countless hours I had spent blasting, cleaning, painting, detailing and carefully reassembling the car wasted because of a lying, underhanded, cheating POS "bodyman" whom I trusted and believed when he said he would protect all the meticulous work I had already done. Then to pick up my car (which he had quit working on a year earlier and left sitting in an unheated/cooled garage) for delivery to a different shop and discover it looked like a barn find!
I am soooooooooooooooo discouraged when I look at the condition of the car I want to walk away from it! I'm hopeful after the holidays I can rediscover my mojo, my passion, my drive to restore her AGAIN to the condition she was when she rolled out of the dealership in January 2020 and then get her moved on to the final phase of bodywork and paint.
On a positive note though, the bodywork is about 95% complete so it should be fairly straight forward for the shop that accepts the challenge of adding her final colors!
HAPPY 2023 TO ALL
ZEBRA 3 OUT
