Good news everyone!
I have been bugging my father to help me take my primary Vanguard into the shop for quite some time now, to get professionally sandblasted by guys who know what their doing. Unfortunately due to the bad weather and the busy nature of our family business I have been forced to wait. Only until recently, business has slowed down considerably and we bought a trailer. With summer fast approaching (Its still snowing here) I am optimistic that we will be able to move onto the next stage of my project in good time.
With that on my mind, I decided to grab a small portable sandblaster that we have and do a little investigating of my own. I removed the rust and paint on the front right fender and found some interesting history! The fender had been brazed at the front fender nose and the fender also had some lead soldering work done on it.
Looking at this really opened my eyes because I removed the rust and paint from a very small area and I have seen a lot of work that has already been done on the truck. Imagine what the rest of the shell is hiding!?
That being said I have decided I want to keep the repair as "old school" as possible, but I don't like the idea of using lead solder; luckily they recently came out with a new type of body solder without lead! This solder is supposed to be easier to work with, stronger and generally better then lead solder, the only downside is the cost!
Looks like I have a lot of reading in my future...
