Tips and Tricks for systematic tear down, How to document all of those parts! Options

[Richard Casto]

I bought a 1972 1.7 last week (with help of forum member Jason Panciera – Thanks Jason!). I am going to totally tear it down, fix body items, paint, etc. and then build back up. Nearly everything is going to come out of the car and it is going up on a rotisserie.

I am looking for tips and tricks on how to do a total tear down. Mostly from the point of documentation and storage of everything that comes off. My assumptions going into this are…

1. Take plenty of photos of everything before dissemble.

2. Bag items into Ziploc bags (use various sizes).

3. Label bags.

4. Box like items up together.

5. Hope I don’t loose anything


I already have an 8MP Canon Digital Rebel XT that I will use for all of the photos. I am not sure how I want to label the bags. I don’t know if I should try to label the exterior, put in a content list inside or each bag, do both or something else?

Anyone have a method that worked well for them?

Thanks!