1937 Buick Model 48: RESTORATION HAS BEGUN! (Photo)
1937 Buick Model "48" (Two-Door "trunkback" Sedan)
A Step - By - Step "Frame - Off" Restoration Thread
Wednesday January 11, 2017:
Today is the day the restoration starts. The Holidays are over, the tree cleaned up and my buddy Mike has graciously offered his vacant garage to store my Model "A" Fords for three months. This allows the Buick to take most of the garage, and puts me on an aggressive timeline so I'm not paying for monthly storage. So, with
Wednesday, April 3: Sandblast day
I built a wood body support "carriage" so the body would be movable for the blaster and the painter. I used 2X8's, 4X4's and locking casters. My day started at 6:00 am, moving all the large sheet metal parts outside onto a tarp spread on the driveway. Then I had to move the body onto the "carriage", so I used the engine crane to lift the back, dropped the back onto jack stands, used the crane to lift the front and slid the carriage under the body
