1960 356B Coupe restoration

[ScottBerry]

Epoxy coated inside the fenders wells and some suspension parts

[ScottBerry]

Worked to find proper location of the bump stop bracket. All welded in!

[ScottBerry]

A sunny day and a bit milder weather here in Canada so dragged the body out for undercoating and top coating with semi gloss. Tough as nailsnow and easy to touch up.

[ScottBerry]

Some parts epoxy coated then sprayed with single stage poly enamel semi gloss. It was a warm day with no wind so shot outside then inside to cure.

[Wil Mittelbach]

An admirable painstaking and detailed restoration of your 356B's parts -outstanding!!

[ScottBerry]

Thanks Will. The nasty part is the sandblasting. My friend has the setup I use but it’s just a noise, messy and time consuming process. With lock down on no better time to do it before the warmer weather.

[ScottBerry]

Removed old bushing and put in new bushings. Put in new pins and made sure the zerk grease fittings were functioning. I kept track of the number of shims on each side of the pin and which pin when I disassembled so I new how many shims and where to put the new ones on the pin. I am assuming the shims on the pin end nest in the rubber gasket.

[ScottBerry]

Trailing arms are in. Set at 16 degrees. Had to use a ratchet strap to pull up the arms under tension to clear lower bolt hole.

[ScottBerry]

Starting to install front suspension

[ScottBerry]

major body work complete - lots of blocking and sanding to do once spring comes. Time to start rebuild of engine and tranny.

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[ScottBerry]

Long over do quick update. Car is ready for hi-build primer and blocking. Working on rebuilding engine with great help and assistance from Walt McKay

[Bill Lawless]

Nice work

[Puygranier Antoine]

Really coming forward, not far from paint anymore !

Antoine

[ScottBerry]

Motor work progressing well thanks to master support from Walt McKay. Motor is on the test stand and runs very smooth. Lots of adjustments still to do as well as swapping out some more restored original parts. But some great progress.

[ScottBerry]

Sent my rear original lid off to GTwerks to have louvers pressed in. Very happy with their work.