jack69cutlass

Good news, I found my build sheet.
Bad news, this is what it looks like...
My sister is an archivist in a museum--if anyone can restore this it will be her. My question to you is: should I bother doing anything with this?

wmachine

Personally, *I* would bother! Not that it would necessarily be worth spending big money on. But to clean it up (with your sister's help) to make it as practically legible as possible. It's a Linden NJ car, and I'm sure there is enough info there to be interesting. Once cleaned up and flatted, make a high res scan (and copy) and put the original away.

jpc647

Where you'd find it?

MDchanic

Zoiks!

Actually, that looks quite legible.

I'd flop it down on the flatbed scanner and scan it in color at super-high res (2400 dpi or better), then just start adjusting brightness, contrast, and color balance in Photoshop.

- Eric

sx455raidercelticfan

if your sister can do i say go 4 it!!

jack69cutlass

It was in the usual place under the rear seat. Good thing too or I am not sure where all the hydraulic oil from the spent pump would have ended up . I pulled it out about 3 years ago when I started the project and the pic is very recent. So what you are seeing is the result of 3 years of drying out. Great suggestion on the scanning and photo-shopping--had not thought of that. It is legible, just very crumbly on the edges, totally dark and oily. But it is cool that I have it, so I will take your advice.