While my old girl is patiently awaiting the next big step in the restoration Toby’s project is slowly nearing completion. The latest news coming this week that Toby’s car has had all its body work completed and is now in the paint booth. We don’t know exactly how long the paint process will take as the painters working on our cars often need to take insurance jobs ahead of personal projects, so depending on how much work they get we should hopefully see Toby’s car completed and delivered to his driveway before Christmas.
Here are the latest pictures just before the car went off to paint.
[...] As I previously reported Toby’s car was going in for paint and my car was just about to head to the converters. Well I’ve just received a small update from John, my builder, as to what’s happening. Details after the jump. John says “Toby’s is in the prep stage of the paint. My painters do a lot of Hot Rod bodys and a lot of these are Fibre glass. There is a few stages to the prep of the body as a lot of it is Fibre glass. The panels need to be prepped using a special under coat that will let the paint stick to the fibre glass. Once this is cured, the fibre glass panels need to be sprayed with a epoxy filler. This is done as the fibre glass panels are never flat, they have lots of little waves in them. The spray filler is then faced back to remove these waves and any pin holes that are in the glass. Once the guys are happy with this, the primer/surfacer is applied, faced back and then the colour build is applied. This colour build is then faced back twice to make sure everything is flat. Once this is all done, the panels are fitted back on the car and the stripes are painted. Car comes apart and the Pepper grey is applies and then the clear coat. Still got a few weeks of prep work to do but it is getting there.” [...]
[...] As I previously reported Toby’s car was going in for paint and my car was just about to head to the converters. Well I’ve just received a small update from John, my builder, as to what’s happening. Details after the jump. John says “Toby’s is in the prep stage of the paint. My painters do a lot of Hot Rod bodys and a lot of these are Fibre glass. There is a few stages to the prep of the body as a lot of it is Fibre glass. The panels need to be prepped using a special under coat that will let the paint stick to the fibre glass. Once this is cured, the fibre glass panels need to be sprayed with a epoxy filler. This is done as the fibre glass panels are never flat, they have lots of little waves in them. The spray filler is then faced back to remove these waves and any pin holes that are in the glass. Once the guys are happy with this, the primer/surfacer is applied, faced back and then the colour build is applied. This colour build is then faced back twice to make sure everything is flat. Once this is all done, the panels are fitted back on the car and the stripes are painted. Car comes apart and the Pepper grey is applies and then the clear coat. Still got a few weeks of prep work to do but it is getting there.” [...]
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