I had a friend in High School who spent years restoreing a Bug Eyed Sprite. It had a custom built engine and had been raced. I guess in its raceing days it collected a few bumps as it had body filler on almost every panel.
I helped him remove the paint with a torch and scrape out the body filler from the panels. He then banged out all the dents and smooted out the bumps with a grinder and some type of epoxy filler.
When it was finished the car really looked great.
He then went out and trashed it raceing down a residential street. Climbed a curb and hit a tree or something and totally wrecked the frame.
