Removing Trunk Canvas And Hideous Pink Paint

Started removing the trunk canvas and the hideous pink paint today. I didn't have anyone to take pictures so I will post step by step instructions and the pictures in the next post. Honestly, I really didn't expect this part of the restoration to be so difficult. I spent a little over an hour on this today and didn't even complete one panel. This is going to be a lot of work.

Rear trunk panel with all the canvas and hideous pink paint almost removed. This is 1 hour and 15 minutes of work.

 

The darker parts of the trunk panel is the leftover canvas that still has to be removed. This thing is going to look so much better once the natural wood is exposed.

Small wood gouge in the rear trunk panel. This is why this part of the project is so time consuming. You have to make sure the razor knife or scraper doesn't get away from you. You'll know you are gouging the wood when the bottom of the canvas scraping has a small layer of wood still attached to it. I placed the shaving next to the gouge mark to show you what this looks like.

While stripping the canvas you have to be very careful not to gouge the wood. This part of the project is going to be very time consuming. Anyway, I just wanted to post an update. I'll make sure to post instructions and pictures in the next post.

Project time for this post : 1 hour 15 minutes
Total time spent on project so far : 10 hours 15 minutes
Total project cost so far : $11.64 USD