72 duster Build progress

well guys, sorry I havent posted in a couple of days. been real busy with other things aswell as trying to get work done on the duster.

after the first mishap with the spoiler paint....I figured it might have been because the paint was sitting around for awhile. so i went and bought a new quart of the stuff. got the spoiler all prepped. sprayed it. for the first 30 seconds or so it was looking good......and then........it started doing the same thing as last time. looks like solivent popping all over. so I tried mixing it at a different ratio than it said to so I could avoid having so much reducer in the paint and eliminate the popping. all that did was make it spray less than desirable from my gun and was screwing with the dry times and screwing with the satin sheen i was going for. so after 3 days of it sitting in the garage it still had not cured up enough to sand. today I said screw it and razor bladed the spoiler back down to scratch. this time im not even going to use that same crap again....don't have time or patience to trial and error it and see if i can make it work this time by using different types of reducers and what not. so I am just going to reprep it and spray it with a different paint and be done with it.

on top of that.....we went from 80 degree weather....down to 56 or so degrees today and it looks like its going to be in the 60's atleast all week....so it looks like the cooler fall weather is coming in. I hate working in the cold. I am going to get the paint finished up and get as much other stuff finished up on the car that I can so I am not forced to work in the cold weather. The car is very close to being done. most of it is down to tinkering with odds and ends. so I should be able to get as much done as i can, park it for the winter and be able to get it out in the spring and get a whole driving season out of it.

restorations are kind of depressing.....knowing that I have devoted so much over the last 3 years to working on this car....and I still dont get to enjoy driving it. and then there are days where I have thought about selling it or trading it for something else because I am sure in my eyes it will never be "done" and I will always see something that I can do better or improve upon and I don't want to be a slave to this project forever lol. so I am hoping i can bring it to a point I am satisfied with calling it finished and just be able to focus on enjoying it.