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Any one remember this dashboard?

I pulled the dash out to get to the A/C. I needed to replace the whole A/C unit behind the dash. While it was out I thought I'd have a bit of fun with it! (I don't think I could make it any worse!)

Rust repairs

Rust repairs done and painted in POR15 so they don't rust again

Refresh on the indicators

Restored indicators. Housing sand blasted, globe fitting sand blasted as well. Lights work perfectly, there is now solid earth on the bottom bracket. Also new lenses

First rust repair

It's been a bit cold in the fridge, I mean shed over the last couple of months but I have managed to do a couple of bits here and there. This the first of many rust repair sections for the car. I've since painted this with POR 15 paint so it shouldn't rust like the right hand one again.

Scraping paint

After stripping the paint off the guards it appeared that the lower base coats were in good nick and it was actually the top coat that was done poorly. It also took forever getting the paint off and I figured if I was doing the whole car like that I'd be there till christmas!
I needed to figure out a way of getting the top layer of paint off with out stripping the car back to bare metal. I didn't want to sand it off as I could loose the design fold lines through the body.
I remembered my old trusty scraper from my old cabinet making days. As you can see from the photo above I've been able to scrape the top black layer of paint off leaving the good paint below.
You can also see the design fold lines are still quite sharp!

The drivers guard is now stripped down and ready for some hammer and dolly work. I've almost got the top side fold running straight, but still needs a little bit more massage.
In the last photo the bottom rear corner of the guard had a huge section covered in bog. It was about 15mm thick and took a bit of effort to get it all off. Below is what I found underneath. My response to this: "If you don't know what your doin' don't @#*'n touch it!!!!
I've put the polished wheel arch trim on the guard to try and gauge how far out the original repair actually is. As you can see it's quite a lot!

Started work on the guards

Drivers side guard is now stripped of all paint. Found a bit of bog in a few places. Got a bit of panel work to do now. Just for the record, it wasn't bead blasted or sand blasted, I used industrial paint stripper to get all the paint off. I then neutralised it with turps and then covered it with phosphoric acid to stop any rusting. That's what that frosty white film is.