The Gutting

After the car was back to its staging area, there was only one thing to do. Gut the car. Everything had to be removed. This seemed straightforward enough at first. but I quickly realized that removing the interior of the car as well as the engine, gas tank and fuel lines was going to take me quite some time. I decided to just do what I knew that I could do....remove the interior of the car.

I started to work, pulling out the seats uppolstry. Out came the dashboard and the door pannels. The back seat came out. Everything inside the car took some sort of brute force to pull out of the car. Dozens of screws and bolts had to be loosened. I had to use a pneumatic chisel to get the front seat out as one bolt was stripped and refused to come off.

The Dashboard was particularly hard to remove. There must have been a dozen bolts holding it on in weird, hidden, out of the way places that were hard to get to with a socket wrench. Persiverence was the name of the game...and once the dash was free, I discovered that it was still connected with wires. I cut them because I was getting impatient.

Once I had a most of the interior of the car out and into my studio, I began looking at the various pieces and trying to see what they could potentially be.