Call me crazy, but I had the perverse pleasure of spending several hours in my driveway on a crisp, clear New Year's Day under my Stude, scraping off old undercoating. All the sheet metal has been removed from the body except the doors so as I was crawling around I was toying with the thought of hoisting the body off the frame to do a proper job of cleaning and painting the undercarriage.
Unfortunately, my garage is not high enough to jack it up inside and the body is down to bare metal so it can't remain outside. Also, my driveway is somewhat sloped so I have yet to figure out how to raise the body off the frame and roll the body back into the garage without dropping it or crashing into the door frames. The body still needs to be high enough to get around underneath for prepping and painting by hand.
Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.
BTW, after much deliberation I have decided to take Elsie back to her original Comanche Red rather than Black Cherry as a previous owner had done some 40 years ago.
Cheers!
Unfortunately, my garage is not high enough to jack it up inside and the body is down to bare metal so it can't remain outside. Also, my driveway is somewhat sloped so I have yet to figure out how to raise the body off the frame and roll the body back into the garage without dropping it or crashing into the door frames. The body still needs to be high enough to get around underneath for prepping and painting by hand.
Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.
BTW, after much deliberation I have decided to take Elsie back to her original Comanche Red rather than Black Cherry as a previous owner had done some 40 years ago.
Cheers!
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