Hi all
just got back from vacation Sat night so went to see Baby this morning.
Slightly less forward than I had expected but still progress is going forward. The slight hold-up was needed to work on a few problem areas that only showed up once the sealer had been sprayed just before we left on vacation 10 days ago.
Once the sealer had been sprayed Joe found 2 minor cracks inside the wheelwell areas that he went back and repaired. After doing that he finally was able to get primer onto Baby!
He sprayed 2 coats of primer, let that set up, than sprayed 2 more coats. Four coats of primer should be a real nice base for the paint to lay on.
after spraying the primer he checked over the entire car again looking for any flaws that may have shown up. Luckily everything looked really good and the car's lines show that the fiberglass work he did came out real nice.
After spraying the primer, he removed the doors again to work on the doorjambs and the insides of the doors. Before removing the doors he marked the positions of the hinges and bolts so when it's time to reintall the doors for the final time it will be easier to re-establish the proper alighnment of the doors and gaps (after spending so much time working to get the gaps corrected we want to keep that alighnment correct!)
Currently today he was working on the doors. After removing the door weatherstripping gaskets he had the unexpected "pleasure" of finding that they had been held on with approx 5 times the amount of adhesive than was needed. This was new weatherstripping done when the car was restored a year or two ago and someone got a bit carried away with the adhesive so it's taking some time to get it all removed. After that he will sand down the door insides and jambs than paint it with the base and clear plus spray the black trim paint for the inside upper area of the doors.
The same will be done for the door jamb areas on the body. He didn't strip the paint off the door jambs like the rest of the car because the paint was in very good condition already - no cracks or flaking, so he only needs to sand it down a bit, prime those areas, than he will spray the paint.
Once that is done the doors get reinstalled for the final time.
Nest step after the doors is to block sand the 4 coats of primer on entire car. Than he will cut in the rear window mounting channel and windshield mounting channel with the base color and reinstall both pieces of glass and mask them off. I'm not quite sure why he wants to reinstall the glass before painting as opposed to afterwards but maybe it's so he doesn't risk scratching anything after the new paint is sprayed by trying to reinstall the glass than. In either case he is the expert so I just let him do it however he wants.
The underneath of the hood has been sanded down and some glue applied where a few areas were loosening up between the hood frame and the skin.
The underneath of the hood will get a new coat of black paint than also get masked off. BTW, in the pics you may see the hood isn't sitting perfectly correct on the car and is dipping down a bit in the front making the alighnment of the lines incorrect - that is only because the hood is just sitting on the car but is not bolted down or attached to the hinges.
After all this it will finally be time to spray the entire car with base color!!!
He figures to be able to shoot the base color in about 2 weeks - maybe even 10 days.
As always, here are some more pics.
Barry
just got back from vacation Sat night so went to see Baby this morning.
Slightly less forward than I had expected but still progress is going forward. The slight hold-up was needed to work on a few problem areas that only showed up once the sealer had been sprayed just before we left on vacation 10 days ago.
Once the sealer had been sprayed Joe found 2 minor cracks inside the wheelwell areas that he went back and repaired. After doing that he finally was able to get primer onto Baby!
He sprayed 2 coats of primer, let that set up, than sprayed 2 more coats. Four coats of primer should be a real nice base for the paint to lay on.
after spraying the primer he checked over the entire car again looking for any flaws that may have shown up. Luckily everything looked really good and the car's lines show that the fiberglass work he did came out real nice.
After spraying the primer, he removed the doors again to work on the doorjambs and the insides of the doors. Before removing the doors he marked the positions of the hinges and bolts so when it's time to reintall the doors for the final time it will be easier to re-establish the proper alighnment of the doors and gaps (after spending so much time working to get the gaps corrected we want to keep that alighnment correct!)
Currently today he was working on the doors. After removing the door weatherstripping gaskets he had the unexpected "pleasure" of finding that they had been held on with approx 5 times the amount of adhesive than was needed. This was new weatherstripping done when the car was restored a year or two ago and someone got a bit carried away with the adhesive so it's taking some time to get it all removed. After that he will sand down the door insides and jambs than paint it with the base and clear plus spray the black trim paint for the inside upper area of the doors.
The same will be done for the door jamb areas on the body. He didn't strip the paint off the door jambs like the rest of the car because the paint was in very good condition already - no cracks or flaking, so he only needs to sand it down a bit, prime those areas, than he will spray the paint.
Once that is done the doors get reinstalled for the final time.
Nest step after the doors is to block sand the 4 coats of primer on entire car. Than he will cut in the rear window mounting channel and windshield mounting channel with the base color and reinstall both pieces of glass and mask them off. I'm not quite sure why he wants to reinstall the glass before painting as opposed to afterwards but maybe it's so he doesn't risk scratching anything after the new paint is sprayed by trying to reinstall the glass than. In either case he is the expert so I just let him do it however he wants.
The underneath of the hood has been sanded down and some glue applied where a few areas were loosening up between the hood frame and the skin.
The underneath of the hood will get a new coat of black paint than also get masked off. BTW, in the pics you may see the hood isn't sitting perfectly correct on the car and is dipping down a bit in the front making the alighnment of the lines incorrect - that is only because the hood is just sitting on the car but is not bolted down or attached to the hinges.
After all this it will finally be time to spray the entire car with base color!!!
He figures to be able to shoot the base color in about 2 weeks - maybe even 10 days.
As always, here are some more pics.
Barry
