Thread: Touch up time again---

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I drive my roadster pickup, the "Wild Canary" as my daily driver from May thru till September. (Okay--if its raining and I have to go out, I take my new Ford Ranger.)--or---if the trip out involves Mrs. Rupnow, who is not a hotrodder, we take her Toyota.) Things being as they are, the "Wild Canary" sees its annual crop of "Road Rash".---Last week was a biggy.---Drove over to Wasaga Beach cruise night, and ran into the rainstorn from Hell!!! Thunder, lightning, cars and semi-trucks pulled off on the side of the road because it was raining so hard they couldn't see.---Did I care???---Nah, not me---After all, I had hooked up my windshield wiper to do the 3500 mile cruise to the nationals and back, so I turned on the wiper and drove on thru. When I got to the cruise night, all the saner souls had left, except for one or two die hard optimists who were waiting for the rain to stop.
I said a quick and rather soggy hello, then headed home. Parked the car in my garage, and left it, knowing that it now needed a complete wash and wax to get all the rain driven road scum off it.
Fast foreward 2 or 3 days, and it was time for a big clean-up and waxing. got out the hose and soap bucket and just about started---but wait!!! "What the heck is---OH MY GOD!!!!
The windshield wiper arm is one of those telescoping ones that you pull out to the required length to suit your car.--and then presumably somehow lock in place.---The damn thing was fine all the way to the east coast Nationals and back, thru practically endless rain.
For some reason, during last weeks rainstorm, it decided to telescope itself out about 1 1/2"---and there's a great big swath of paint GONE off the back of the cowl directly below the bottom of the wiper arc!!! Fortunately, when I built the car, I modified the windshield opening to accept a glue in windshield and this left a raised section about 1/2" higher than the actual top of the cowl, right next to the glass.---Thats where the paint is gone from. The cowl top proper was spared.
So, today I'm mixing up paint and hardner, 6 drops at a time, and taking my teensy weensy paint brush that I stole from my grand daughters paint set and "touching up" road rash and my windshield wiper gore.
Paint one coat (being very carefull to ONLY PAINT WHERE PAINT IS MISSING), clean the brush, wait half an hour, and repeat. Thank God its not a metallic paint!!
I thinks its time to go out now and give things a fourth (and hopefully the last) coat.------Happy Hotrodding.----Brian
(And Oh Yeah---I pulled that damn telescoping arm out all the way, coated the sucker with Loctite, then shoved it back in to the length its supposed to stay at!!!)