I was lucky enough to finally buy this car a few months back from a guy that had it sitting for many years underneath his work building. I never really looked it over that good and just saw it as a decent 442 project. After getting it into one of my garages and the dissasembly started, i have no doubt this is a true w30 and not one of the thousands of fakes out there. Of course without hard evidence such as documentation, its tough to prove but ive been documenting with pictures during disassembly all the w machine specific things i find and any markings, parts and placement and such. Progress has been slow but ongoing when i have the time. So far i have stripped the car to its shell, put the body on my dolly and doing things here and there. Im Currently putting my time into the frame. I am happy with the results so far. Sooo much time blasting parts, and working on details. Any markings i found on frame and suspension during dissasembly and cleaning up were photographed and replaced during assembly. I see alot of over restored cars where it looks like the builder was taking 3rd grade art class and went crazy with markings. Im duplicateing what i find this car had from the assembly line, no extra markings that 100 cars on the internet have. Just my 2cents. Ill try to post more pics as i make progress.

 

Another pic. Seems i can only upload one at a time from my phone.

 

The best of luck to you during your restoration process. Just take your time and eventually everything will fall into place.

 

I see a lot of marks already

How do you know you didn't miss some?

Was there a PN/Letter code sticker on the frame, upside down? The '66 I redid had that. I replaced it exactly. Same location, font, color, orientation.

The body mount holes in the frame look rusted out too large- or is that my imagination?

did you find the VIN stamp? Where at?

Looks like a good start!

 

Whatever stickers were on frame when it rolled off the line are all long gone. Im sure springs, swaybars, rear, etc had them on the assembly line and probably blew away at the first car wash. No stickers are going back on the frame. The markings are all the born on car ones i found and photographed during dissasembly. Im sure there were some that dissapeared in 40+ years but only the ones i found go back on

 

Havent posted in a while on any progress since work has me busy as usual, but i had some time to order a few things and wanted to give all you guys doing a resto on your olds a heads up on some stuff i recently purchased from the right stuff detailing. Horrible aggrivating experiencewith those guys. Lesson learned i guess and i should have stuck with inline tube. After having to call them 3 times over sending brake and fuel lines that wouldnt fit, im done with those guys. Either going to try to get a refund or take the hit. Sent brake lines back and got a refund since apparently they cant make lines properly for a manual drum brake 442, and just got this brake line in the mail today on the 3rd attempt. Maybe just a bad experience for me, but if you plan on ordering anything from them, Be careful.

 

Another pic. Close up of rear section that is way off.

 

Nice build Quake following along..

 

How is it trimmed?