The hole thing

The 1969 El Camino that was first featured on this site back in September is finally back from the media blaster. It is currently at Murphy Rod & Custom to have the various rust holes repaired and to have the drive train installed.

It will be a while before I get my mitts on it, but it is good hands with Kelly. Better hands with Kelly than with myself at this point because there is no way I can work the kind metal magic that he and Josh can.

These two pictures show the car up on the rotisserie so that Josh and Kelly can reach all the hard to reach places without them actually being hard to reach. The car is going to need pans and a new bed, and a few other minor rust repairs, but even after the removal of 43 years of gunk and grime, the car still looks to be in a little better than average shape.

After Murphy Rod & Custom works their magic on it and I give it a splash of paint, then it will look much better than average.

Every petrolhead’s dream

This 1968 Camaro SS is something special. With less than 30,000 original miles and perfect original sheet metal, you don’t find a car like this just every day. Prepping this car for paint will involve a media blast and prime … and not much else.

Here the car is back from having its paint removed by media blasting. Media blasting uses tiny plastic beads propelled by high pressure air as a gentle abrasive to remove paint and rust. The concept is the same as sand blasting, but the plastic beads are far less damaging to the metal surface than sand would be.

G’day Gov’nor

The owner of this 1961 MG A is doing the bulk of the restore himself but he needed a little help with the paint. We here at JMC AutoworX are ready to help.

The car was first sent away for media-blasting to remove the old paint to give us a good foundation for laying on the paint. Media-blasting is the process of removing paint, rust and crud by spraying tiny plastic beads against a surface with a high pressure stream of air. It is just like sand-blasting except the plastic beads don’t chew up the metal the way sand would.

The body of the car is in terrific shape. After the paint was removed we tackled the little bit of metal work this car needed.

This is bugging me

This 1964 Beetle arrived at the shop in need of some help. The paint was in such poor shape that we had the car media blasted to get back to bare metal to prevent problems in the future.

Media blasting is used to remove paint, rust and crud from a car by expelling tiny plastic beads with high pressure air against a surface. As the beads impact the surface they chip away the paint without damaging the metal underneath.

After the car was media blasted, we cleaned it up and rolled it into the booth for a coat of primer.