Restoring the Volga GAZ 24 part 2

Today I looked back at the works done and thouse still ahead.
The first thing I did was disassemble the car, find out what kind of part are the original once for the
1978 model. I will tell from the remarks for 1978 model later.

And this was 2008 autum:

Well looks like a real mess I know, I didnt expect the car turn out to be that worse in first place.
The car had belive ore not 7 layers of paint, I mean I have heard about A
merican cars that are like that. I used to remove the paint some paint removing chemicals + a heat gun.
Is some cases the paint remover did not work and I had to use the heat gun instead.
Some photos to give a look of the situation that I was confronted with:


A month full of work and looking back at it Im not suprised why professional car restores aske a lot of mony for this kind of work.

Finaly 2009 spring time to" take out the trash!", I had some more work ahead before starting working with the sandblaster: