It Hath Begun...56K WARNING 800x600 pics
After a couple years of "I'm going to paint it some day", I finally decided now is the time. Car in question...my daughter's '67 Barracuda. Rick (71autoxr) and I decided there's no better time than now to knock this thing out, so for the last couple of weekends we've started. First order of business was fixing the nose clip. Besides the grille holes being jacked up, the rest of the nose is perfect. We cut out the bad holes and welded in patches. Cleaned them up and shaped them to look "factory". We've yet to drill the holes, but so far, so good.
Next order of business is the roof. A previous owner had hacked in a sun roof and then another owner after him decided to take it out and hack in a patch. We spent a couple of hours tonight digging through about 1/2" of filler to find the welds so we can fill them right. The previous filler job was over some surface rust and it had begun to crack and peel. Our solution is to dig it all out and shoot it with epoxy primer to seal it, then fill over the top of that....and not with a 1/2" thick layer! Slowly but surely...hope to have color on it before the new year.
After a couple years of "I'm going to paint it some day", I finally decided now is the time. Car in question...my daughter's '67 Barracuda. Rick (71autoxr) and I decided there's no better time than now to knock this thing out, so for the last couple of weekends we've started. First order of business was fixing the nose clip. Besides the grille holes being jacked up, the rest of the nose is perfect. We cut out the bad holes and welded in patches. Cleaned them up and shaped them to look "factory". We've yet to drill the holes, but so far, so good.
Next order of business is the roof. A previous owner had hacked in a sun roof and then another owner after him decided to take it out and hack in a patch. We spent a couple of hours tonight digging through about 1/2" of filler to find the welds so we can fill them right. The previous filler job was over some surface rust and it had begun to crack and peel. Our solution is to dig it all out and shoot it with epoxy primer to seal it, then fill over the top of that....and not with a 1/2" thick layer! Slowly but surely...hope to have color on it before the new year.