1966 Dodge Dart
Well its been over a month since my last post. Ive spent a few weekend days out in the shed trying to get the rear quarters to an acceptable level of repair. You know the drill, add filler, sand it off, add more filler and sand again. Well I was making progress this past weekend on saturday and then sunday came around and I finally got a day of sunshine so I needed to mow the yard, work in the flower beds. At the end of the day I sat down in my chair and realized at the rate I was going the car would take a few more years to complete. So i guess you would say at that point I made a major decision. It was time to get a real body man to finish the body work. Now if you have followed this thread you know I had a body guy lined up that owned me money but he would never show up to throw labor at his debt. It been all but 3 years so I finally realized he was never going to come and do the body work. So around 6:30 sunday night I called another person I knew that does some side work. We talked on the phone and he came straight over and by 7:30 that night I had hired someone to finish the body. He showed up Monday morning and yesterday he told me we would probably be painting the car in 3 weeks. SO with that coming faster then I thought it would I need to decide on the paint scheme. I was thinking white body and black old school racing stripes with my scoop black as well. So last night I did some layouts and heres what Im thinking about.
Amazing what you can do with body paper!
I thought about the stripe being red like the interior but Im leaning to black. And maybe finish it off with black painted bumpers.
What are your thoughts?
Im hoping things will move fast this summer and by October I will be able to go to the Ridgley Md car show that Richard Petty is always at.
Thanks for following and hopefully now I will be posting the cars finish coming this summer into fall!
Rod
Well its been over a month since my last post. Ive spent a few weekend days out in the shed trying to get the rear quarters to an acceptable level of repair. You know the drill, add filler, sand it off, add more filler and sand again. Well I was making progress this past weekend on saturday and then sunday came around and I finally got a day of sunshine so I needed to mow the yard, work in the flower beds. At the end of the day I sat down in my chair and realized at the rate I was going the car would take a few more years to complete. So i guess you would say at that point I made a major decision. It was time to get a real body man to finish the body work. Now if you have followed this thread you know I had a body guy lined up that owned me money but he would never show up to throw labor at his debt. It been all but 3 years so I finally realized he was never going to come and do the body work. So around 6:30 sunday night I called another person I knew that does some side work. We talked on the phone and he came straight over and by 7:30 that night I had hired someone to finish the body. He showed up Monday morning and yesterday he told me we would probably be painting the car in 3 weeks. SO with that coming faster then I thought it would I need to decide on the paint scheme. I was thinking white body and black old school racing stripes with my scoop black as well. So last night I did some layouts and heres what Im thinking about.
Amazing what you can do with body paper!
I thought about the stripe being red like the interior but Im leaning to black. And maybe finish it off with black painted bumpers.
What are your thoughts?
Im hoping things will move fast this summer and by October I will be able to go to the Ridgley Md car show that Richard Petty is always at.
Thanks for following and hopefully now I will be posting the cars finish coming this summer into fall!
Rod
