Step 11

Here are the contents of Box No. 5: alternator, distributor, starter, horn and sundries. We printed this photo and put it in our binder. Now we won’t need to open the box to see exactly what’s inside.

Step 12

Here are the contents of Box No. 2: door handles, door latches, boot latch, and miscellaneous door hardware. We laid out all the parts in an organized fashion for the photo, pairing left parts with their corresponding right parts. At this step, our method was already proving useful: One of the door-check mechanisms was obviously missing, so we knew right away to either find a used one or order a new one. It’s no fun figuring out these issues in the thrash to finish before a big show or rally.

Step 13

Here’s Box No. 2 on the shelf. We won’t open it very often because we can see everything inside it in our pictures. This eliminates further risk of misplacing something while searching through bins.

Step 14

Some parts just won’t fit into bins. We put these on the shelves and photograph them by shelf. If we do pull them down, we make sure to return them to the shelf we take them from. Again, this makes it easy to find things and prevents them from getting lost during the restoration. In this case, we had a couple extra exhaust pieces that we don’t expect to use. We’ll probably keep them just in case during the restoration, then sell them off when we’re absolutely sure we won’t need them.

Although everyone knows that if you keep the car...YOU WILL NEED THEM eventually....and will pay more to the guy you sold them to.... lol