When we started taping off the front fenders,
we suddenly realized that this small edge of the fender should be
green. Since the plan was to mount the fenders on the body before
spraying the green on the exterior, it had to be painted now.
Kurt quickly masked both fenders for this small green area and sprayed
it, while I finished prepping other areas. After the 20 minutes dry
to tape time, we taped it off and sprayed the white on the fenders..
The inside of the deck lid looked great.
Another
angle on the deck lid. The shine is terrific.
The white isn't called Bright White for nothing.
Wait til you see the pictures in the full sun.
Once the clear was on the fenders and the deck
lid, we had to wait again. The clear has a dry time of 9 hrs before
you can do anything. So we rolled the fenders outside and set up for
the hood.
So by now it
is midday on Sunday, Day Three. We sprayed the white and green
base colors on the fenders and inside the deck lid. Then we clear
coated those pieces. Next up is both sides of the hood, outside
of the deck lid, splash pan and a couple of misc pieces.
The hood is so large layed flat that we can
only handle it with a few hanging misc pieces. The black is the powder
coating and we simply scuffed and sprayed clear over it.
The splash pan and the misc pieces. The splash
pan was purchased back in 1991 after the accident. It came in primed
and hadn't rusted in all this time.
One of the problem - the clear crazed on the glovebox
door. Not sure why this happened. We scuffed and sprayed a coat of clear
and it looks great now.
Once the pieces
were done, we had doors to hang and fenders to remount on the car.
Talk about stressful. We are handling very fresh paint in a situation
that generally scratches painted edges and trying very hard not to
nick or bump anything. We managed the doors fairly well, but we didn't
want to bolt the entire front end together, so the fenders were not
tightened down very tight.
Driver side. The lighting in the garage turns
the clear to ivory, but the sunlight will fix that.
Once the hood was sprayed with clear, we started prepping the body for the final
step, the green base color.
What a *J-O-B*. The paper skirt on the bottom had to be moved back to reach
the rocker panels.
The window areas had to be securly taped up to prevent overspray leaking
into the car and most especially into the door jamb area.
The entire trunk area had to be sealed off.
Ok, so we're being silly. But after all of this taping and wrapping, it felt
like Christmas!
At the start of Tuesday Day Five, I
went to work at 5:30am and left at 12. A quick lunch and we were spraying
at 1:30 again. That morning while I worked, Kurt was able to spray the
white and clear on the outside of the hood, the misc pieces, the splash
pan, and the deck lid by himself.
