Chevrolet C8 1940 Cab 11 restoration, The Netherlands

[Alex van de Wetering]

Sadly, I won't make my D-day 2019 deadline....not by a long shot actually as progress over the past 1,5 year has been very, very slow.

Anyway, I haven't updated the thread for a long time, so I have to catch up.

My C8 rad had a few rows soldered shut and the sheet metal was pretty rusty. I brought the rad to a specialist who recored it and pressure tested it. Sadly, they just cleaned the rusty sheet metal and gave it a coat of water-based black paint. The filler neck was still not usable and after a few months the sheet metal started to rust again.....and that was with the rad stored dry indoors in the garage.
It seems the black paint they use for modern rads is just not good enough to keep WW2 steel from rusting...or maybe they just didn't remove the acid from soldering.

I had them remove the sheet metal again and fixed the metal properly.