I removed the fenders today.  I want to undercoat them because they didn’t get painted when the previous owner had the car painted.  Not sure why they didn’t get done (they were off the car when the car was painted).  Even if it had been painted,  I’d still want to put a very light/thin layer of chip guard undercoating on the undersides of the fenders.  It’ll actually help protect the topsides of the fenders from getting little star cracks in the paint when rocks from the tires hit the undersides of the fenders.  Maybe the previous owner had the same idea in mind, thus he didn’t see a need to paint the undersides.  Here are some pics with the fenders removed…

I adjusted the hood latch today so that it actually works.  It’s an interesting mechanism, indeed.  It’s designed such that if the hood latch cable (the cable runs from the latch to the inside of the car) ever breaks, then it automatically unlocks itself.    This prevents you from ever getting locked out of the front luggage compartment.  =)

I made some giant sized sawhorses today to hold the body when I remove it from the chassis.  There is some work I want to do to the body, and it will be way easier to do with it off the chassis.  Wow, they *are* sturdy!  STURDY!  I think I could keep my Suburban body on them.  😉

The sawhorse design is based on the ones in the Bugme videos.  They’re pretty easy to build. It took three 8ft 4×4’s, 1.5 8ft 2×4’s, and 4 metal post things (for reinforcement and to hold the legs easily/nicely in place) for each sawhorse.  They’re high enough, and wide enough, to roll the chassis out from under the body once it’s on the sawhorses.  I’ll be putting the body on the sawhorses solo.  I’ll record a video of the process and share it on here.