Hood (or Bonnet)

In an effort to try and paint everything possible before it gets too cold to warm the garage effectively, I made a start on the hood yesterday and today. At this point, this involves just removing 51 years worth of dirt and oil. As ever on this Land Rover, it's been a pleasant surprise to find that corrosion has been relatively light - outside of the bulkhead and chassis.

Day 1: Cleaned some sample spots just to see what I was up against, and then did the central aluminum areas. Then, a light scraping of the steel frame to see how things were there, exposing some red oxide primer at the same time. Result: very minor corrosion on the aluminum, and just light surface rust on the frame. That was some very well baked on dirt and oil. Frame is painted black with red-oxide primer.

Day 2: Aluminum done, and most of the frame scraped and gone over with the wire wheel. Interesting to see the factory overspray of the Pastel Green, including what looks like a little test of the spray gun from whoever was painting that day. Hood hinges have been removed for stripping.