{"id":339,"date":"2011-10-21T14:17:02","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T21:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.60impala.com\/blog\/?p=339"},"modified":"2021-03-06T13:49:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T21:49:45","slug":"state-of-the-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.60impala.com\/blog\/state-of-the-restoration\/","title":{"rendered":"State of the Restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So it&#8217;s been a long, long time (again) since my last post to this restoration blog. My plan this past spring was to get the car in paint before winter. Well, this is clearly not going to happen. I got a little bit of work done in April and May regarding getting the hood and fenders lined up nicely. There is some body filler on the hood now, and it&#8217;s about ready for some high-build primer. This is where things stalled. Lots of stuff going on over the Summer, but now I look forward to getting back to work on the car. Shown below is a photo of the car as it sits right now, neglected with junk stacked on top of it along with a lot of dust! Shameful, I know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.60impala.com\/blog\/state-of-the-restoration\/60flattopstalled\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-340\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" src=\"https:\/\/www.60impala.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/60flattopstalled-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-340\" title=\"Project Stalled\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.60impala.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/60flattopstalled-500x332.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.60impala.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/60flattopstalled-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.60impala.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/60flattopstalled.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#8217;s been a long, long time (again) since my last post to this restoration blog. My plan this past spring was to get the car in paint before winter. Well, this is clearly not going to happen. I got a little bit of work done in April and May regarding getting the hood and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.60impala.com\/blog\/state-of-the-restoration\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">State of the Restoration<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-evaluation","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>State of the Restoration - 60IMPALA.COM<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.60impala.com\/blog\/state-of-the-restoration\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"State of the Restoration - 60IMPALA.COM\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"So it&#8217;s been a long, long time (again) since my last post to this restoration blog. 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