Team Extreme~The Volvo 1800 E Build by 1800e

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Next up was the paint. I needed to remove all the paint and bondo to get back to a clean surface. I also really wanted to get done with this so I could clean the garage again and not have all the dust. My once clean garage is covered with undercoating, bondo, paint and whatever else came off the car. I surprised to see how much bondo was used from the factory. There was a skim coat over the entire body of the car. Here are asome visuals for the guys...

The side markers, bumpers adn chrome were removed. 

The front driver's fender gets hit with paint stripper.

Next was the driver's door. 

I removed the windows and primered everything black so I didn't get surface rust on the metal. I was very happy with how it turned out! Very little rust.

5-20-2013

Hey guys here is your update of things done and seen over the weekend. Saturday was the 50th IPD show in Portland Oregon. I would like to thank my dad and younger brother for driving down from Olympia, WA. We got a lot of ideas from the other Volvo owners for fixing up my ride. My younger brother is amazing when it comes to fixing up old cars and has an eye for details. Although he's in to American cars, he loved seeing Volvo owners getting together and celebrating their cars. 

We walked around for a couple hours and wouldn't you know something almost made me cry! Seriously! I was about 200 yards away from her and I still knew it was her. 10 years ago from the day I sold my beloved Volvo 142 I drove in college. It had over 315,000 miles on it and I loved that car. It was parked at the show. It was in rough shape, but still on the road which made me happy. 

If you own this car or know the owner...please respond!

Zoom in and you can see my WSU sticker on the driver's wing window. It's still there!!!!

Thanks IPD for the reunion!

I got back to the house and started working on the car with my dad and brother. We tackled a number of projects and made some real progress. Many of you know I'm tucking the wires and relays in the car. It will give it a clean look. Here's the before:

I spent Sunday the 19th of May taking all of the relays off the fender's and labeling them with my trusty tape. 

And taking lots of pictures:

Now the engine bay is cleaned up like this:

But the interior looks like this. It will get cleaned up too!