Obviously, based on this picture and the picture from my previous post, it is evident that the pickup suffers from some pretty serious rust issues, as do a lot of other vehicles that have been driven in Nebraska for years on end. I decided, for whatever reason, that I would start my project by sanding down the hood though. I suppose I based my decision mainly on the amount of fading the paint on the hood had suffered. Regardless, I initially spent several hours with a hand block sander, taking all the paint off the top of the hood. (I had very limited resources at the time, since I was still in high school.) Anyway, below are several pictures I took after I sanded the hood down to bare metal and put a coat of primer on. (I started using a different type of primer part way through because I ran out of what I started with.)
