The Austin Healey was loaded onto a friend's trailer to be taken to Artistic Body Shop to be sandblasted. Most likely this will be the only work I outsource.
After five days and eight hours of labor, the car came back with a new and different look!
Sandblasting takes the frame and sub-frame down to bare metal and remove any rust, truly exposing the areas that need to be repaired.
Overall, the frame and sub-frame was in the condition we expected, and, thankfully, the sandblasting process didn't expose any problem areas we didn't already knew existed.
Since the car is down to bare metal, it has to be primed with an epoxy primer immediately. A bare metal frame and sub-frame can easy rust. Even a fingerprint can cause damage. So George and I spent the afternoon applying an epoxy primer to the frame and sub-frame.
Now that the frame and sub-frame have been primed, we will now move onto the next step: repairing the frame!
