Things are moving again and the doors, hood, exhaust panel and headlight buckets are all fitted.
We've mounted the front and rear bumpers to check for fit with the new wide fenders and made the most minor of adjustments to get a good fit.
On Monday afternoon, we're lifting the body back onto the wooden dolly. Then, it's up on to the hoist for some last minute clean-up to the fiberglass underneath before spraying it body colour with acrylic enamel. Why acrylic enamel underneath? Because it's stronger and has greater hiding qualities for the little imperfections that exist under all cars. You might even be asking, "Why paint underneath....the factory didn't!" The answer. "Cause I want to."
The plan is to have the underneath painted by next Saturday, the 29th.
Then, it'll be time to rivet the seatbelt reinforcement brackets, seat-track reinforcement brackets, etc. in place just prior to the trip into the paint booth for the topside spray in base/clear.
It'll be home for Christmas. Then the real work begins. :crazy
I love being there in my dirty coveralls, working on the car, and hearing the comments from other customers (who don't know I'm the owner).
"Holy crap.....look at that beautiful chassis. Is that new?"
"Man, how did he get those huge wheels under there?"
"Is this thing for sale?
We've mounted the front and rear bumpers to check for fit with the new wide fenders and made the most minor of adjustments to get a good fit.
On Monday afternoon, we're lifting the body back onto the wooden dolly. Then, it's up on to the hoist for some last minute clean-up to the fiberglass underneath before spraying it body colour with acrylic enamel. Why acrylic enamel underneath? Because it's stronger and has greater hiding qualities for the little imperfections that exist under all cars. You might even be asking, "Why paint underneath....the factory didn't!" The answer. "Cause I want to."
The plan is to have the underneath painted by next Saturday, the 29th.
Then, it'll be time to rivet the seatbelt reinforcement brackets, seat-track reinforcement brackets, etc. in place just prior to the trip into the paint booth for the topside spray in base/clear.
It'll be home for Christmas.
Then the real work begins. :crazyI love being there in my dirty coveralls, working on the car, and hearing the comments from other customers (who don't know I'm the owner).
"Holy crap.....look at that beautiful chassis. Is that new?"
"Man, how did he get those huge wheels under there?"
"Is this thing for sale?
