Pulled the rear end

I pulled the rear end and got the car safely suspended. Also did a bit more cutting to the hatch area in prep for the fuel cell. The teal fender in the engine bay is a practice piece for the Hobart MIG welder I just got on loan from a neigbor. He had recently had a pacemaker put in and could no longer use it. I had asked to buy it from him and he insisted that I just take it and use it like it was my own. Can't find nicer folks than down here in SW Virginia!! Also, notice those nice new shelves behind the car!! I was quickly running out of room! Nice and organized again!

Winter's over... Back to stripping... again

I went ahead and cut out the spare tire well in preparation for my fuel cell install. I drilled out the spot welds with a special bit that I got from Harbor Freight. Cost me only a couple of bucks but was well worth the money. Got the doors off and dismantled as well. Interior is nearly completely stripped.

Pressure washing and scrubbing

I spent a day pressure washing the underside of the car and scrubbing the engine bay to get everything as clean as possible.

Still stripping the 240

I grew VERY tired of stripping cars. This must be the most aggravating process of rebuilding a car! Deconstruction. It seems like no matter what you do you are still so far away from the end! I was really looking forward to rebuilding things at this point. My initial plans had never included completely strippiong the car. I was seriously bit my the "might as well do this" bug! Also, a severe lack of funds and an incredible drive to get some work done on this thing was not a good combination. No money and an urge to work on the car = deconstruction. As you can see, I had a complete lack of funds!!!

Still stripping... both the Z's!!

I stripped the 280 completely, selling what I didn't need. I made around $700 by selling parts and the stripped body to a wrecker ($200). I don't thikn i'll do this again though. Between stripping, listing, and shipping the parts it was a considerable amount of time. Good way to make a bit of extra cash if you have no other way to fund your project though.

Found myself a parts car

I came across a parts car not far from my home. Not in the best of shape but it had the hood, cowl and rear end (R200) that I wanted. Picked it up for $200. Wife was loving having this smelly thing i nthe garage. it had been sitting in a damp garage for a couple years. It had old pizza crusts inside it and the guys kids had been playing in/on it.