240Z: Finally to the bodyshop, some last touches

Yesterday the project maybe made the biggest move forward since i have these two cars: I brought one of the chassis to the bodyshop, so finally – yeah FINALLY! – the project is getting serious 🙂 But let’s start at the beginning:
Last week i started with some last preparation work:
1) Test-fitted the Overfenders just because i realized i haven’t done that yet 🙂

2) Removed some door hardware:

3) And removed the doors which i left on the car for the sake of missing space in my garage 🙂

4) I also prepared a bunch of documents for the bodyshop guy, like a few prints with measures and drawings of the body and a catalogue with available body- and repair panels in case if i need to order something 🙂

5) Then decided to take a few detailed “before-fotos” for documentation:

6) And then finally the day came yesterday when i had arranged a date to get the car delivered to my bodyshop-guy. The day started like this:

7) After uncovering the white, first (now spareparts) chassis i moved the black one out of it’s comfort-zone to put it to a bit of sunlight first time after two years 🙂

8) Next i put the white chassis back into the garage to have it save before snow falls and to have it ready to cut spareparts for the bodyshop if needed 🙂

9) Then i had to wait for the Car-hauler to come, but he was a bit late due to an emergency-call so i decided to clean the space in front of my garage from all the junk, leaves and dirt that have collected during the past years underneath my white car:

There she’s waiting….

10) Finally the Hauler showed up 30 minutes late and despite having some concerns if everything will work fine i was really surprised the car was loaded after 5 minutes and tied down. This guy was a real pro and well experienced 🙂

11) After a 5 minute drive the car was unloaded at the bodyshop. It’s now waiting in the “cleaning room” and after cleaning will be moved next door for bodywork. I’ve spent about 2 hours talking with the body-shop guy (Named Yves) and he seems to be exactly what  i was looking for. He’s an experienced chassis builder (not only panel beater) which is perfect because she needs extensive chassis repairs and finishing. Not only small repair patches 🙂 The plan is to have the chassis done within a year. I hope this works as planned 🙂

12) He also gave me a few JDM-books for reading which i thought was really exciting and worth a foto 🙂 The bodyshop is close to my home so i plan to have a look there every now and then and update you with pictures and News. Of course i’ll get some other stuff done in the meantime. so watch out for updates 🙂