Dart's in the Shop and Am Already Thinking of the Next Build
Very true and understandable. I'm just thinking of things to do for my free time to keep me preoccupied. Because sitting at home watching movies after work can get boring. Lol.
That's because you are paying Hotchkis to work on it and it's at their shop.
There's a lot of little projects you could be doing to the car. For instance, taking the bumpers off one at a time, cleaning/steel wool/sanding/ the bumper brackets, painting them with industrial Krylon semi gloss and re-installing them.
Lots of fine cleaning the details of the car. Remove rear quarter panel drain plugs, coat hanger from inside quarter panel trunk, push and vacuum out 40 years of gunk. Same for cowl vents.
Cleaning and scrubbing the underside of the car. 3 cans of engine greaser, go to pressurized hand car wash, pre treat underside and let in soak in for 10-15 min, bring jack and jack stands, blast every inch of underside of car. Bring towels to put over your seats because you should get pretty soaked and dirty in the process. Or wear overalls to change out of.
Taking cleaning up and just hand polishing the stainless trims. 000 fine steel wool to clean the paint overspray off the stainless and stains, then Wenol polish the trim.
Since your car is at a shop right now, clean up and organize your extra parts you listed above. Wipe of the grease and heavy dirt so that every time you move them you don't get filthy. Bag stuff so you don't get dirty brushing up against them. Could box with ID some so they stack and take less room. Also will help if you ever decide to sell them. Take digital pictures of them and keep them in a file of extra parts so you know exactly what you have at your fingertips.
It's all project management skills. Break down the big project into little ones. Knock off one at a time.