Thread: Could it be finally true??

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Believe it or not, this weekend we finally got some primer sprayed on my Son Dan's roadster pickup...........well, at least on part of the cab. He's been building this car in one form or another for 5 years, and he bought the Brookville body 2 1/2 years ago. He kept finding things to change or fabricate and it seemed we would never get to the point of actually applying some primer to it.

We got the new compressor motor installed Friday and Saturday he did his final prep work and he shot a coat of PPG etch primer on first, then top coated it with two coats of DP90. We were able to hang it from our gantry which allowed us to tilt it so he could first shoot the entire underside with the etch and DP90 primers, then we leveled it out and he shot the rest of it.

He plans of shooting small batches at a time, so things like the cowl cover, back part of the body, doors, and various brackets can be shot this week and next weekend. Lots of stuff still has to be powder coated, like everything under the dash (pedal mounts, steering column mount, etc) and we can now get those done too. This should really be the beginning of the end of this long build, once you get them into paint things start happening pretty fast. Plus, the entire chassis is pretty much done and the engine runs already.

Here are some pictures of what he got done yesterday. I may have to do them in two posts. You have no idea how happy I am to see this day finally come, and I know Dan is on cloud 9.

Don