Finally had a Saturday with decent weather, so I was able to take the car over and have the engine compartment and hood sandblasted. The black paint they painted in the engine compartment was almost as thick as undercoating, so blasting was the easiest way to get all of it out of there. The hood I'm using came from a different car, so I had to have the surface rust stripped off. Turned out nicely, but I forgot to take pictures. When the previous owner restored this car back in the 80s, he had all the body seems filled in with brass, and then cover with absurd amounts of body filler. Since I'm replacing both valences, they had to come off. It wasn't pretty....