Glamour Shots.. '62 Valiant Wagon
2/23/24:
I got the battery tray reasonably sorted. Welded in, and smoothed the patch. It's there but you probably can't find it in the picture. I did a repaint of the tray and the arms supporting it. It should be the engine compartment color, but I have no idea what color the car is now after the previous owner resprayed it some shiny metallic blue, so I just used rattle can goods.
I also cleaned up the hood latch/catch mechanisms. The upper part on the hood should be galvanised.. I lightly blasted it to remove all of the blue paint that the body shop covered it in. I hope the blasting did not remove much of the surface zinc.
The hood latch on the radiator yoke is supposed to be cadmium plated - so no luck on buying the plating kit for that yet. I will just paint that metallic silver for now and can easily unbolt and replate it later as needed.
2/23/24:
I got the battery tray reasonably sorted. Welded in, and smoothed the patch. It's there but you probably can't find it in the picture. I did a repaint of the tray and the arms supporting it. It should be the engine compartment color, but I have no idea what color the car is now after the previous owner resprayed it some shiny metallic blue, so I just used rattle can goods.
I also cleaned up the hood latch/catch mechanisms. The upper part on the hood should be galvanised.. I lightly blasted it to remove all of the blue paint that the body shop covered it in. I hope the blasting did not remove much of the surface zinc.
The hood latch on the radiator yoke is supposed to be cadmium plated - so no luck on buying the plating kit for that yet. I will just paint that metallic silver for now and can easily unbolt and replate it later as needed.
