Original sealer was scraped and removed from the body seams in preparation of the media blasting process.
The chassis was disassembled as well.
The body was stripped using a dustless blasting process. Paint was not removed from large flat areas where it is safer and quick to hand-sand with dual-action sanders. Other irregular areas, like body panel joints, trunk floor, and panel edges, are most efficiently stripped by blasting because of their shapes.
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