Blasted

We finally got around to getting the bug sandblasted and into the body shop today. I spent quite a bit of time trying to find someone in town who would "media blast" the car but nobody around here does blasting with plastic media. I kept reading that using "sand" or other coarse media is bad. We ended up taking the car to a shop down the road from here and they use copper slag. Worked great! And it was cheap - $127 to blast the whole car, inside and out.

Here's what it looked like when I picked it up from the blaster and was towing it to the body shop:
















We didn't find any more rust than we already knew about, but we did find that the car had some previous minor body work done on it.

It will probably be in the body shop for a few months while they clear out some other projects they are currently working on. That is perfect for us because we need to strip the chassis, install new pans, new front-end, new tranny, etc. At least we have more room in the garage now :).