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Originally Posted by DA34GUY

Ya got that puppy shiney yet Roger???????? Ribs will be waitin 4 ya here in Duncan !!!!

Not yet, Don. Unheated barn, other than a ReadyHeater that spews diesel fumes & residue and temps in the 30's to mid-40's hasn't worked so good. It's finally warming up some today, but we've got four couples coming out to the house late afternoon. The rain is gone for a few days and we're in a general warming trend so I'll be shooting primer tomorrow, then hopefully the little bit of panel matching body work won't take long.

The cold weather finally left the area! Did some final prep yesterday, taping and papering to try to keep overspray contained, and this morning was ready to start.



Wiped it down with a wax & grease remover, blew out all the door & hood gaps, then did a final wipe down with glass cleaner to remove all residue:



Once clean it was time to spray all the plastic wall & roof panels and the car with a 50/50 mix of rubbing alcohol and water to remove static, and let that evaporate. It took almost an hour for the car to totally dry, then it was a final blot with a tack rag (new cloth, open fully and let it air for ten to fifteen minutes minumum, then blot, don't rub). An hour later the car was once again all one color, but showing me some areas where work will be needed.







I didn't even know when I did it, but I was reaching out to shoot the roof and let the hose kiss the edge of the roof in three or four places, and then after I saw that I laid on a heavy shot of primer for some sanding thickness and got a run Not a big deal, as this is a seal coat of primer, prepping for filler to level gaps at the hood, trunk & doors anyway, but still irritating



The lesson learned is that I need to commandeer the step stool from the kitchen pantry to give me a bit more reach, and also to drape the hose over my shoulder.

It was only one color for about ten minutes, waiting for the primer to flash, then it got dusted with light grey as a guide coat.



Drying overnight, then blocking and fill starts in earnest tomorrow. Grandma is bringing the twins later today to spend a couple of nights, which is going to eat into my barn time, but it'll get done when it gets done!!

way to go Roger! Excited to watch this thread.

Looking Good there Roger!

I'm not going to bother everyone with a blow by blow on priming and painting, but one area that had concerned me was the cowl. Using a fiberglass hood and extending the back edge to account for leaning back the grille created some mis-match. The extension of the back edge of the hood was done (shown earlier), but there was some vertical mis-alignment to deal with. Once the supports were adjusted for the body side molding to be straight the hood was high relative to the cowl varying from 1/8" to 1/4"; and because of the extension making the hood slightly wider there was also a mis-match on the sides. With the hood as a guide I used body filler to build up the cowl, and after a couple of hours and a bunch of filler dust it looks 100% better! Passenger side, showing the center - yes, that's a celebratory Corona, 1/2 gone!!

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Looking down at the hood side, alignment with the cowl:
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Driver's side, across the top:
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While waiting for filler to dry up front I got the top & trunk blocked out, and I think all of the fill work on the trunk area is done. Tomorrow I'll block the doors & sides, and I know there's a bit of fill on door to body match to get done. Also have some minor filling on the hood side molding area, and some pinholes up front in the fill rolling down to the grill surround. Hoping to have the final primer on Sunday/Monday, then wet block the primer, prepping for paint & clear. I've got to pull the doors and trunk after the body work is done around them, and make some stands to support moving them in & out of the spray booth area. On a good note, the gable mounted fan did a great job pulling fumes out, and I didn't see anything floating around in the air. This might work

looks much better

Good Job Roger! And I like how you posted the pics with the explanation of what we're seeing in each shot! You'll need to come up with some sort of tutorial for us "challenged" posters..

Originally Posted by 34_40

Good Job Roger! And I like how you posted the pics with the explanation of what we're seeing in each shot! You'll need to come up with some sort of tutorial for us "challenged" posters..

That's really easy to do, and doesn't add much time if it's not too many pictures. Once the pictures or image files are uploaded, and in the "go advanced" mode I hit "preview post" to ensure that the pic's are in the right order. Then dropping back down to the message box I move between the picture files, add a couple of spaces and enter my text. Before I hit "submit" I hit "preview post" again to check the work, and to be sure I didn't put the right words with the wrong picture, or vice versa

Nice work.

That fits a heck of a lot better Roger, very nice work!!!! The extra time to do things right is always rewarded by the quality of the finished product!!!!!!

I don't know..................if you'd done a few more of those cervezas ahead of time you wouldn't have had to deal with as much OCD.

BTW Roger, this is all your fault.

My booth isn't anywhere near as sophisticated as yours..............................but I do have today's spraying on the bake cycle right now......

Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

BTW Roger, this is all your fault.

My booth isn't anywhere near as sophisticated as yours..............................but I do have today's spraying on the bake cycle right now......

And I have no doubt you'll get a much better finish than I!! It's not the environment as much as it is the guy pulling the trigger! Now, about that OCD thing.....

Interesting, my wife uses that brand of glass cleaner. I steal it to do the windows on the cars when I just gotta see. The interesting part is that I have always felt it left a film. That said, I would expect it to be determental to your paint. Guess it is not so (not trying to be a jerk, just looking for experience.)

Originally Posted by Scooting

Interesting, my wife uses that brand of glass cleaner. I steal it to do the windows on the cars when I just gotta see. The interesting part is that I have always felt it left a film. That said, I would expect it to be determental to your paint. Guess it is not so (not trying to be a jerk, just looking for experience.)

My paint supplier, who is also a high buck painter, swears by it for the final clean. No film, no residue, no ammonia. Worked fine for me on the primer.