Summer Internship Objective:

Every year LeMay Restorations has at least one feature car restored for their annual car show in Tacoma, WA. This year we have two 1956 Powell's. Our goal is to have these cars restored and driven onto the show field on car show day, August 28th 2010. Will we complete these cars on time? ...

Keep checking this blog to find out!

Quick Note:

LeMay Restorations is a completely separate entity from the LeMay-America's Car Museum. The two Powell's are family owned and restored at their private shop. The museum is a not for profit organization.

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

July 6th - Body number 2

NOTICE: We have 8 weeks until car show day....which means we are behind. I'm going to start coming in early and working Sundays to help get things done.

Finally got the wagon body back. Got the frame under one of the tents ready to work on. The body looks way worse than in the photo. It has a lot of new metal but a lot of dents and oil cans. Plus we're not yet done with the truck body yet. Yikes! We better get the move on!
This is the color scheme of what the Powell's will look like when we're done.


Leading up the first tank. This one is already body filled and DP'd. Just waiting for the second one (which is about to be DP'd) to seal the inside and Herculine it on the outside. The second one was way worse! Lots of nasty rust through. Won't even be able to tell when I'm done with it!


Putting the shackles and leafs on. I have another picture of the rear end and axles assembled and installed as well. I was joking with Jeremy and said I would win in a race if he was driving one Powell and I the other. He asked why and I told him it would be because I would turn his pumpkin upside down. Hopefully he'd be a good driver in reverse since he'd have 3 reverse gears and one forward. I'm not that mean though.

(If anyone can guess what that truck is coming out of my face, I will give them some serious cash)

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