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My 1939 Ford Standard
Coupe - The Tear Down |
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Here's the hood and
release handle. The hood is nice and straight. It just needs to be
stripped. I'm fortunate that the handle release parts are there and not
broken. These are unique to the 1939 Standard Ford and are not reproduced
by anyone at this time. These will have to be rechromed of course.
Check out the "work bench". I bet my wife
doesn't even know I took one of her chairs into the garage! |
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Here are the hood
release parts by themselves. Both are chrome plated "pot metal".
The handle has a steel stem somehow inserted into the metal casting. The stem
has a couple flats ground into the end near the threaded section. The
parts that these connect to inside the car are all steel and are painted
black. |
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I stood the hood up
on end and began to strip the paint off. You are looking at the residue of the
old primer.
The hood was one of the nicest pieces of sheet metal on
the car! Not a dent or ding nor a spot of rust anywhere. I'm extremely
careful where I put it when in the garage so that it doesn't fall or get
knocked into. When I've finished stripping it I'll shoot a coat of primer
on it and return it to safe storage in the basement for now. |
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The driver's side
door is stripped. I think I spent more time on this than most of the rest
of the body! There are many grooves, corners, crevices, etc that you have
to get into.
You can see some small spots of corrosion on the bottom
half of the door. They're not even pits. I will run over them with a scuff
pad on my polisher to see how they clean up. |