This is awesome. I wish I had half your fab skills. I just flat out suck. lol
Hope to get the sandblast guy back here Monday.
Great progress! Every little step counts!YES!! Sandblaster guy was here today- later than promised but still got here! He got both of the exterior front inner fenders as well as the complete engine compartment up to the cowl pinchweld. He didn’t have time to start on the inside firewall so he’ll ce one back another day. This will give me time to epoxy prime everything and likely get it all in the white exterior paint. The light at the end of the tunnel is getting a bit larger all the time! No pics today.
Looks great Don! Will you shoot the paint on the body fully assembled?Got the epoxy primer mixed and ready to spray when my bodyman friend stopped by to see what I was up to. He told stop what i was about to do and he would spray it. He decided to push the car outside since, according to him, conditions for spraying were nearly ideal matching a spray booth - of course I have no spray booth and was going to spray outside anyway. 15 minutes later both inner fenders and engine compartment were in gray epoxy primer.
Outside of driver’s inner fender
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passenger side firewall side inner fender
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Core support
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He told me to get the paint, reducer and hardener as he was going to spray color since the primer was ready and conditions outsider were perfect. I once spayed a Belvedere wagon outside and if conditions are “right”, no runs, drips, dust or bugs. He sprayed the Spinaker White - no run, drips or errors!
Driver’s side outside of inner fender
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Firewall
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Passenger side inside of inner femder
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Passenger side of outer fender
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As Scotty kind of said in Star Trek IV, “there be white paint”
Looks great Don! Will you shoot the paint on the body fully assembled?
YES!! Sandblaster guy was here today-
... when my bodyman friend stopped by to see what I was up to.
Great progress Don!The sandblast guy called to see if I was ready for him to come and do the inside firewall and anything else that needed to be done. Told him I Wasn’t ready for the inside but he could come by and do the underside of the hood as there was a lot of surface rust that was under the hood pad. He also blasted some smaller stuff - back side of the licence plate light, original gas cap, tailgate torsion bar retainer, both spare tire cover support brackets and grill support that mounts to the upper core support. After thoroughly blowing it out, I figured I could handle the epoxy primer and white paint. My bodyman friend will probably give me hell but no problem as I can handle the paint and him telling me it looks like a rookie job and I was lucky this time - it turned out pretty nice, shiny and smooth ready to install the hood pad in a day or so.
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Another small step forward!
Great progress Don!
Yepp, that's the funny part of restoring a car!The sandblast guy said Looks like the weather forecast is calling for rain the next couple of days with sunny says next week.
I am just waiting for the fun time - the assembly with all the correct finish hardware to either refinished, rebuilt or NOS parts!
It’s gotta awesome to put finished pieces on for the last time!
I can’t wait until I get to that point.And I got lots of finished pieces and hardware to install!
That's great. Get some epoxy primer on it as soon as you finish the morning coffee!
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Damn Don....looking good brother.
Lookin good Don!!!!![]()