Removing all nessary parts for body removal & body lift,

To start with the removal of parts for the body lift I have already disconnected all interior parts eg;e-brake cable,steering,shifter etc,

Next thing I decided to remove was the rear bumper,

I decided to remove the door locks and locking pins also,

The hood has been removed for ease of access to engine compartment,the front bumper was v-britle and fell apart while removing.

Now the bulky heavy light assemblys have been removed also to reduce weight for when lifting off the body.

Here is a pile of the parts removed for body lift,they look like they are thrown in a heap but they were actually placed carefully together.

The two light assemblys are in v-good shape,the a/c rad will not be going back into the car when re-assembling as here in ireland we do not have much need of air con.

After fitting the lifting straps in key locations,the car is ready for the body lift,

I decided to use another strap to support the nose of the car as when the body is lifted there is no further support to the front end only the bonding to the firewall.

Now nice and slowley I lifted the car from the frame using a 3T block and tacle attached to a overhead RSJ,

At this point I re-checked that there was no snags,

Now the body is clear from the frame,but as it can bee seen the body is not quite square to the frame as I mis-judged the centre location of my block and tacle,no harm done anyway.

Now we have a  levitating corvette .

Once the body was clear from the frame I got to see the true extent of how bad the body mounts all were,

I reckon the only thing keeping the body on the frame was gravity,

Once I had the body on its dolly I removed the windshield trim and wind sheild,there will be a new windshield fitted when the time comes as there was a crack from a stone chip on the drivers side.