It did not take me long to get the body off the chassis. It takes
a lot less time to pull a car apart than it does to put it back together again. My
friend Mike made the body-trolley that the body is sitting on - this made it easy to move
the body in and out of the garage when I was doing the fiberglassing. The frame was
in fairly good shape, and was sent off to get sandblasted and painted. While trying
to load the chassis on the trailer, I slipped and part of the rear crossmember cut a 2
inch hole in the back of my thigh. A couple of stitches and some painkillers later,
and the restoration was back on track.
This photo shows the steering rack. It was bolted to the large triangle-shaped
brackets portruding from the bottom of the frame shown by the arrow. These brackets
were removed. The steering rack was actually mounted crooked, which could explain
why the car was so hard to drive. One of my goals for the restoration was to get
this old car to handle a lot better.