More before shots.
Then the canvas top is removed and the wood front rails are removed. It took most of this afternoon, but all the bent rails have been straightened. The next step for this assembly is to completely disassemble all the rails from each other. For the most part all the seperate pieces are held together and pivot on 1/4" stainless steel rivets. So all these need to be drilled out and the pieces go off to the chromer. They get chromed, then new rivets get hammered back in. I'm getting ahead of myself here because I want to fit the frame to the car that is still away at camp, make sure the straightened bits fit before the rivets get drilled out.
In other news the windshield frame, the rear lights, the bonnet prop rod, the crash rail plugs, and some other odds and ends are off at the chromers. I brought several other pieces along that the chromer didn't want to do because he thought that they were too far gone. He could fix them but the cost would be too much.
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