Back from media blasting

Finally, after five weeks, I got Snowback back home the other day. Most of the job was done with sand as media. Certain areas as the roof was handled with soda only. The end result looks good to me as the rust is gone and no new rust areas was found. This cost me quite a lot of  money, but I'm happy with the finished job. Here is a couple of shots.

Nice, clean and almost rust-free

Frame rails and extensions were in good shape,
despite that the floor pans are lost.

Under the rear seat and inner wheelhouse

The lower edge of the rear window opening
This will require welding skills

Floor pans and toe boards need to be renewed

The firewall outer ends will get new panels

Apron behind the battery tray, the usual rust collector

Lower end of the spring tower.
Both sides have to be patched.

RH side rear front fender apron.
LH looks pretty much the same.

No big disappointments except for the lower edge of the rear window opening, which appeared to be lousier than I had expected.

What was extremely encouraging is, that one of the most common rust areas, the cowl area,  had no rust at all ! So I will yield drilling out the 200+ spot welds of the cowl panel. Been there, done it , don't want to do it again ! The rocker panels were in excellent condition, unlike the ones of Destiny.

Neither did Destiny have rust damages in engine bay and firewall, whereas this one has plenty of them.  In many ways this car is totally different than Destiny and so are the areas of rust. I have plenty of replacement panels already but a couple more will have to be ordered as the reconditioning proceeds.