rokemester wrote:The pan is looking sweet! How nice to have great helpers. Is the stone chip finish have a rubberized feel to it? Do you know how it is formulated? We have companies here in the States that spray on a truck bed liner. I wonder if this is similar.
Thanks for providing all the pictures. It is a great learning experience for those of us who are contemplating a full blown body off restoration.
Mike
Thanks Mike, I appreciate you reading the thread
I wouldn't be anywhere without some help from my friends - my friends have shown me how to weld (4 years ago) and are now showing my how to paint
- without them encouraging me, the car probably would have been scrapped by now...
The stonechip is essentially the same stuff that many modern cars (at least in the UK) have underneath, and up the sills. I can't find a decent photo of an example, but if you take a look at a few modern cars, and sometimes the sills have a textured lower part which is then over-painted in body colour.
This is the stuff I've used - I'll be using it on my inner wheelarches too, to provide body colour around the wheels whilst still have protection against stonechips
I've never used it before, but it gives a rubbery finish which ought to provide a bit of sound deadening too, I guess. I'm not entirely sure what chemicals are in it...
It is HBbody 950, as shown here...
http://www.hbbody.com/prod1.htm
This is my first restoration, so I've never used it before. But it is what the paint shop recommended, so it ought to be OK
Jim.
- I've been getting loads of advice from all my friends who can paint, and slowly taking everything on board... I've bought the paint already, I'll be using 2k paint throughout... quite difficult to get over here now due to the environmental regs on it 
