Auto restoration and ..

[GMCAMARO]

When you are restoring a car or truck and you have finished painting a part but are not ready to hang it back up, what do you do with the part?

I am thinking of large parts like fenders or truck beds.

I am restoring a 1958 Chevrolet Apache, similar to E-Teks, I feel, like I have been at since 1959, but any way. Parts like the fender now have primer and a few parts like doors will shortly have paint. Looking for a way to store and protect them before they get put back on.

They are to large for the attic now that they have paint. Was thinking of an elevator type storage, but I though you folks would have some good ideas.

I have room, as I do have one bay with 16' ceiling, currently where the work on the Apache is occurring. The other two bays have cars in them.

 

[Krash Kadillak]

Big hooks - hang them up. That's what dealership parts departments do.

 

[LAROKE]

Be very careful with those parts. You have the only 1950 Chevrolet Apache that I know of.

 

[James E]

Yep. with a 16' ceiling, you've got lots of room to hang stuff.

 

[Denominator]

I have now rebuild three cars over the last years, and I got a big Shelving Unit installed for the first car. Every shelf is fitted with a thick and soft carpet, the fluffy floor kind. Also the side posts has carpet around them. I keep the Shelving Unit in a little room only for this purpose. Here I also store the larger parts on wooden blocks with, yet again, carpet pieces between the wood and the parts.

 

[ZRX61]

BIG shelves. Got a rack of 6 at the hangar that are 4x8ft, about 8ft tall, only two vertical supports in the middle at the ends & it's on wheels.

 

[Hammer1963]

I use chains, pulleys and a come-a-long to hang parts. Works very well and has plenty of strength

 

[1949 caddyman]

Thats what the spare bedroom is for.

 

[mpire]

Thats what the spare bedroom is for.

Seriously.

Then again, if you do a good job refinishing it then it could be put on display in the living room or something like that.

I put a hood on top of my entertainment center for well over a year.

 

[PCO6]

I can tell you where you shouldn't store parts that you've restored. A friend of mine put the newly restored grille for his MG TC under his bed. One night he and his wife were doing the horizantal mambo and wouldn't you know it ... they broke the bed.

 

[Keep]

I can tell you where you shouldn't store parts that you've restored. A friend of mine put the newly restored grille for his MG TC under his bed. One night he and his wife were doing the horizantal mambo and wouldn't you know it ... they broke the bed.

hahahaha that was the cars revenge for not paying attention to it!

I use the basement. Just keep the dogs away.

 

[mad57]

Go buy a cheap metal 10 x 10 shed for the storage of the parts esp if there in finish, as far as painting whole parts seperate from the car, very risky jams are one thing a whole door or seperate fender is another , if you are painting it good if others have a hand in it could be trouble, everyone has a diffrent pass, distance, time on trigger ect, at a class ive seen 10 people with same gun and same color produce 8 diffrent (colors) weird but true. please post pics when your doing this love those old chevys. have fun.

 

[ratdoggy]

Seriously.

Then again, if you do a good job refinishing it then it could be put on display in the living room or something like that.

I put a hood on top of my entertainment center for well over a year.

What does SHMBO think about those solutions?

 

[mpire]

What does SHMBO think about those solutions?

SHMBO= She Who Must Be Obeyed.

I had to google that one.

She is just fine with it. I take the precaution of always telling my wife everything so there are absolutely no secrets or surprises. She never listens, but I always tell her anyway.

Makes life easier.

The biggest argument was whether we were going to put the carbon fiber hood on her car or my car.

Ended up selling it for a large profit to put that battle to rest.

Currently I make more money than she does, but in a couple years she will eclipse me in earnings, so I gotta be extra fair.

 

[1967lemans]

Tall shelf, hang it from the ceiling, store them in the basement.

 

[ratdoggy]

What does SHMBO think about those solutions?

Just learned that yesterday myself

 

[mpire]

You are clearly more hip to the internet lingo than I am.

 

[ptschram]

You are clearly more hip to the internet lingo than I am.

It's not internetz lingo, it's from Masterpiece Theatre's Rumpole Of The Bailey

Predated the internetz by many years.

 

[Jagmandave]

SWMBO is actually a lot older than the internet - it's from the old Fawlty Towers British TV show from the 70's, starring John Cleese.

I think he may have coined the term, but it could be much older than that even!

Edit: ptschram beat me to it - but I never heard it on Rumpole, John used to use the term all the time on Fawlty Towers.....

Edit II: don't do what I did - I had the nose section of my E-Type on the back porch with a blue tarp tied over it and held with bungy cords, the wind caused the tarp to scratch the hell out of my fresh paint - fortunately I had enough paint on there that I could sand/rub it all out.

Be careful where you hang your parts from, unless the paint is well cured, it will leave a mark.

 

[ptschram]

I used to call my mother "She Who Must Be Repaid".

Of course, I also wrote checks to her payable to "bearer". She got the joke!

 

[Jagmandave]

 

[C G]

I had my stuff in a rented storage unit for awhile. I scored the slat board from a store going out of business. The garage is much further along putting it together wise since I took this pic. The parts hanging on the wall are now a little dustier, but still hanging there.

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