Rumble Lid

 After finally getting the rear quarter panels spread apart to fit the rumble lid, I decided to strip the lid and see what kind of shape it was in.  Somewhere in time someone decided that some tar undercoating would be a great thing to spray on the inside of the lid.  I tried paint remover, acetone and Lacquer thinner but it only cut the top layer.  So I decided to scrape it off by hand.  Two days later it was all off.  There is a quite a bit of welding required to fix the lid so I had to remove the tar or watch it burn up during welding. Where the tar was thick it came off easily but the thin stuff took work.  As you can see it looks like this car was a trunk lid car before it was a rumble seater so someone welded up the trunk latch holes. I took off the hinge brackets  and cleaned up around them as metal fatigue has caused some cracks that need welding.  Overall this lid needs less work than all the other body parts so I'm happy with the results.  Last pic is the outside with all the bondo and primer removed, ready for some welding.