Badges back on!
Rear door skins back on! Also new pinch-weld rubber installed around all doors, and metal tracking back in place.
Rear Bumper and reverse light back on!
Bootlid back on and new stainless fittings.
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Amazingly another sunny day with no breeze this time of year. She is starting to be put back together and ready for road use.
Top of boot lid 3 coats!
Cut and polished rear quarters with tail lights in
Quarter glass back in, and new side mirrors
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Incredible luck! A perfect ambient temperature today of 24deg. and not too much breeze was a blessing for the final coats of paint. The night before the coat from last week was carefully flatted and the entire workspace (single garage) cleaned and de-dusted.
Today between 11am and 6pm without break all external areas were given 2 more coats. Yes it took almost 7 hours, very slow, and very careful as the small compressor tends to fill up the water trap pretty quick.
All that is left is the bonnet still... will be forwarded to panel beater soon, and the outside of boot lid (this weekend maybe?).
More photos coming in a few weeks after putting everything back together, cut and polish and tidy up.
The NOS tail lights are really going to set this off!
Very happy with these results.
Sorry by the time the camera came out if was dark, so the colours arent really this pink... honest!
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Warm weekends with no wind, bliss!
First coat of paint is on. Despite the wisdom of the paint shop, a 2mm tip on the spray guy seemed to be too air hungry and above my skill level to control, so ended up using the trusty 1.4m tip touch up gun with larger paint pot. No doubt the finer tip seems to work better for low pressure spraying, and maintains a better velocity. The paint also seems to respond best by blasting a coat on, letting it cure, very finely sanding back and then doing a very careful final coat. This technique seems to work so far anyway. I call it the "heavy guide coat method" *laughs*.
So now time to wait for a few warm days and baking, then its final blast time! The dent / rust and ding repairs seem to have turned out well with panels flat and clean.
Anyone who has ever done this alone at home in a very cramped environment can image the stress and self doubt that the painting stage can cause. Or perhaps ingesting a good dose of thinners (despite industrial strength respirator), effects the brain into fantasys of neighbours calling the cops? None the less, no complaints so far *touches wood*.
Inside boot lid:
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Painting has begun, and the annoying part to begin with... aka door jambs and window surrounds. A quiet calm and warm day was perfect for the job, and being a weekday no passers by the garage were splattered with the custom matched original cardinal red. Apologies for the pics... taken on mobile phone again.
Also rusty boot channel has been repaired and painted w00t!
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