An Ode to higher skilled family members

An Ode to higher skilled family members.

My Brother In Law - Louie is awesome beyond words. He's much better working on cars than I am and he's very giving of his time. He and my sister live about an hour away. During the summer - he came and helped us pull the drive train. After body shop estimates came in too high for us to afford - he said he was willing to power wash the entire thing, wire wheel and rattle can the rust spots in the interior and engine bay all in exchange for a small sum. He's a great guy.

Pictures of the man himself (and his truck):

Power washing like a Baws!

Showing Orion how to use the lift

Towing Lady off for body work

A few days later - Lewis calls - he has a friend that has a full body shop that can do the media blasting, prime, and paint for a reasonable fee (way less than our other estimates). I figure they'll mask off what we didn't remove from Lady and go to town. We gladly take him up on the offer.

I found out today that Louie has spent the last 2 months getting the body ready for the sand blaster and paint. He is doing this up right. I can't thank him enough. The small sum is, of course, going to go up :)

Left: Small parts he blasted in his shop. 

Center: Glass, window cranks, wiper motors, etc. 

Right: Lady almost ready for the body

8/2019 - Wow I suck at keeping a blog.

Wow! I suck at keeping this blog up to date. Previous post we had the engine out. This post has pictures from August when Uncle Louis came and took the body off to do the power washing, some wire wheel & sand blasting. Paint coming soon.

After a bit of power washing. There is a lot more rust on that back wall than I thought. Thank God for generous and skilled family members

Some of the smaller bits sand blasted. Looking forward to seeing the painted version