04-08-2020, 09:57 AM
All about paint....
So, back in the garage again and the pressing job is the rest of the bodywork. The wings, running boards, bonnet and rad shell went away in June to be blast cleaned but there was a problem (isn't there always?) and they were not completed until last week. I have now etch primed them and they're awaiting repairs but honestly, not much is needed.
One back wing is poor but the rest are really very good.
Someone has mig welded in a horrible over-patch on this wing and it needs replacing. However, 90% of the rest of the wing is pin-holed through and I'm considering having a new one made....
One of the things that annoyed me about the car was that the body was all blue, whereas it should have a black top. So I dug out my spray gun and started painting. The car had been finished in cellulose in 1985 so respraying it was easy, no reaction occurred and the paint was thick and easy to rub down. It's not a perfect job by any means (I'm not very patient when it comes to spraying) but it's good enough. The blue needed some repairs as well; I managed to get a 97% match on the paint colour I reckon....
Just need to paper in the blue repairs and Finesse the new paint in and the body repairs are complete.
Unfortunately, when the car was cosmetically restored in the 1980's the body shop had replaced the rear sliding windows with a single piece of 3mm domestic glass, illegal and dangerous. They also removed and discarded the beading that runs around the window at the rear to allow their bodge, leaving a raw edge....
I had purchased a Top Hat R type door on eBay some years ago and found enough of the beading to replace the missing parts. It needed annealing and re-bending and now it's quite close to the original. I need to replace a small piece of wood, also discarded by the bodgers.
So now, on with the job of sorting out the wings. If I can get all the spray work done this summer, I will be pleased - the temperature needs to be above about 18 degrees C for the paint to dry without bloom so it's really a summer only job.
So, back in the garage again and the pressing job is the rest of the bodywork. The wings, running boards, bonnet and rad shell went away in June to be blast cleaned but there was a problem (isn't there always?) and they were not completed until last week. I have now etch primed them and they're awaiting repairs but honestly, not much is needed.
One back wing is poor but the rest are really very good.
Someone has mig welded in a horrible over-patch on this wing and it needs replacing. However, 90% of the rest of the wing is pin-holed through and I'm considering having a new one made....
One of the things that annoyed me about the car was that the body was all blue, whereas it should have a black top. So I dug out my spray gun and started painting. The car had been finished in cellulose in 1985 so respraying it was easy, no reaction occurred and the paint was thick and easy to rub down. It's not a perfect job by any means (I'm not very patient when it comes to spraying) but it's good enough. The blue needed some repairs as well; I managed to get a 97% match on the paint colour I reckon....
Just need to paper in the blue repairs and Finesse the new paint in and the body repairs are complete.
Unfortunately, when the car was cosmetically restored in the 1980's the body shop had replaced the rear sliding windows with a single piece of 3mm domestic glass, illegal and dangerous. They also removed and discarded the beading that runs around the window at the rear to allow their bodge, leaving a raw edge....
I had purchased a Top Hat R type door on eBay some years ago and found enough of the beading to replace the missing parts. It needed annealing and re-bending and now it's quite close to the original. I need to replace a small piece of wood, also discarded by the bodgers.
So now, on with the job of sorting out the wings. If I can get all the spray work done this summer, I will be pleased - the temperature needs to be above about 18 degrees C for the paint to dry without bloom so it's really a summer only job.