Thanks - 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
I love my bug in the multi-coloured state, but I hope it'll look even better when it's all painted fully
Oh, and I have two '1300' badges - one used, one unused... but they won't be fitted to the car for a while yet
My UK RHD '66 - owned for 3 years now.
Top half in Primer...
Black paint...
Grey stonechip
And black again on top of the stonechip
Obviously, the finish isn't as smooth as before the stonechip, but it should provide a longer lasting finish with it...
Huge thanks go to Lucy (Shamrockez) and Sarah (CCR Beaver) for the help with the prep and paint today...
Black paint...
Grey stonechip
And black again on top of the stonechip
Obviously, the finish isn't as smooth as before the stonechip, but it should provide a longer lasting finish with it...
Huge thanks go to Lucy (Shamrockez) and Sarah (CCR Beaver) for the help with the prep and paint today...
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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 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 threadrokemester 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
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.
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Thanks Mike
Just a quicky update, as I've taken a few days home - I get fidgety if I go too long without getting dirt under my fingernails from playing cars...
I now have front suspension, all set up and standard
More to come at some point... next job is swapping the gearbox for a 1500 ratio one - could be fun
Just a quicky update, as I've taken a few days home - I get fidgety if I go too long without getting dirt under my fingernails from playing cars...
I now have front suspension, all set up and standard
More to come at some point... next job is swapping the gearbox for a 1500 ratio one - could be fun