Dry-ice blasting our 50 year old Barn Find Pantera

Tom and Brian take the Pantera chassis to a cryo-blaster for some much needed cleaning. The name of the game is preservation not restoration, and there's no better way to preserve the patina of this classic sports car than dry-ice.

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[porthose]

Oh, how I love seeing some love given to a Pantera.

[ifbridges]

That's a beautiful car! So glad to see you're bringing it back to life!

[tetedur]

Sarah N Tuned has done cryo on her channel. Her setup is pretty rudimentary, plus she's out in Arizona, but she's borderline OCD about stuff like that, so it's always interesting to watch. The results can be amazing; far more so than I would have believed.

[vettekid]

When I was a supplier quality engineer 20 come years ago we started using dry ice blasting to clean steel castings both for rust and also toxic preservatives that some foundries would apply. The beauty of it was there was no chemicals or blasting media to dispose of in landfills. That greatly offset the higher initial cost of the process.

[paulipuhakka]

Lol, I just finished watching the dyno test, install of the engine, and test drive. By chance, came across this👍😎 Perfect 🙏 Cheers 🍻🍻🍻👍 to great barn find guys.

[jeffplant]

Totally awesome video. Such a great technology for restorations like this and obviously lots of other genres. Great project to be following along. Never dull and always an education

[thesaltysergeant]

Super excited to see this car being restored.

[rogerp]

An amazing process especially using it for interior restoration. Thanks for sharing

[thomasadrian]

The Pantera is my favorite car of all time!!

[FrancinaldoFaustino-rj]

Meu irmão Parabéns pelo seu trabalho..que belo carro. 🇧🇷👍👍

[jasonlee-osqi]

Freaking amazing... this car is deserving of this....

[ricksmith]

I wondered where the lift came from... An underground lift... Cool, reminds me of my part time job at the service station in High School....

[timshaw]

Minute 4:27 the sheet metal looks banged up around that half shaft. I have repaired a Pantera that looked alot like that.

[ldnwholesale]

Tom, , I have seen this proces and it is generally quite good. To get that rusty radiator stain from the engine bay use contentrated chemical detergent. Spray it on with a trigger pump, , leave for 10 min and blast off with a pressure washer, it will come up better. That rad stain will wash off. Near 50 years of detailing cars in house. Possibly use the detergent then dryice off. The gearbox came up better with brake clean. Though glass bead it and it will come up new. But keep the glass outside only!!

[mer]

We do this at Ford Motor Co in the body shop. The weld slag just drops off the robots

[funkyzero]

for the aluminum stuff you should try out the slurry blasting process. you can make it look like new again

[bullfrommull]

What a fantastic job. The car is in really good condition. I was expecting rust.

[cinemabunny]

The Pantera would be a great car for Ford to remake.

[johna]

Conveniently omitted downside to dry ice cleaning mentioned in other comments. Were this a "real" job, I wonder what the cost to customer would be. Looks like they used the entire thousand dollar hopper full, maybe more. Spraying what looks like a dime sized pattern, a very tedious and time consuming process, probably taking operator an entire day to complete. So, out the door $1500. - $2000.? Seems it would be far cheaper to start in the driveway with a pressure washer removing up to 90% of dirt and grease, particularly if you're willing to jack the car up, lie on your back and spray upward. THEN go through dry ice cleaning, including interior, cutting cost significantly.

[anderslaugeprip]

Hey...when did you do the detaliling and polish of the car? That has not benn aired, right?