Update #4
Well! I took the skin off of this little Teardrop and it looked pretty naked! What do you think? Guess what I found under it all??
Bingo! Dry Rot! Another unanticipated job begins! I started to check out all of the wood, only to find it almost everywhere. This is the left front side.
. . . .and this is the right side! Think it needs replacing?
Took this picture of the dry-rotted wood pieces that fell out of the right front. They could be brushed off with my hand! Here they rest on the garage floor.
Here is a close-up of the hinge. Now you can see how bad the rot really is!
This is the right corner after the wood was removed from the frame. You can clearly see the rot that permeates the floor of the Teardrop. It really needed to be replaced all along!
Want to see pictures as the reconstruction begins? On to update #5.
First Page of Teardrop Restoration January 1999
#1 updated 03 February 1999
#2 updated 13 February 1999
#3 updated 20 February 1999
#5 updated 04 March 1999
#6 updated 08 April 1999
#7 updated 16 April 1999
#8 updated 12 May 1999
#9 updated 31 May 1999
#10 updated 15 June 1999
#11 updated 15 June 1999
#12 updated 24 June 1999
#13 updated 14 July1999
#14 and final updated 10 October 1999
Expenses involved in this restoration,
article that appeared in Mechanix Illustrated, January 1953
updated 14 March 1999
...and the credit goes to: updated 10 October 1999
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