Stripdown commences

The first task was to take off as much as possible, and then put every single component in a bag, with a label. Anything of note was noted down to save hassle later. Hopefully bagging and labelling will avoid the kind of situation where I have no idea which length of bolt goes where, or where the nuts for the tailgate hinges went. Or the little tube for venting the fuel pump. Or indeed any other bit of car.

She still looks too much like a car!

Then I couldn't resist a little explorative chiselling to see what I could find under several layers of paint and filler.

I knew that was there!

That doesn't scare me!

Paint removal starts. The most boring part of the whole project.

Nitro Mors and a wire brush in an electric drill reveals the original white paint, then a respray into green, then a subsequent respray into white again. And lots of filler, just to slow the process down a bit.

Paint removal is what is going to take the time, I can tell that already.