When our good friend Greg dropped by for a visit last month he asked if I was going to re-coat the areas on the bottom of the floor that I had removed the undercoating to replace the rusted out panels. … Continue reading
With a little bit of searching I was able to finally find my new hinge pins that had gone missing some time ago. Actually, I had placed them in a nicely marked bag which ended up in the wrong storage … Continue reading
Since it had not been overly warm up here on the mountain, I let the paint cure for a couple of weeks before begining to wet sand it prior to doing the final compounding and polishing (cut and buff). Testing … Continue reading
This morning Michelle and I un-masked the hood and fenders and looked over the window frames, and trim pieces. The major problem that I found was that the plastic film that I had used to mask the beige areas of … Continue reading
A banner day today! With Jerry’s help we were able to finish up the last of the planned paint work. We started the day masking off the beige paint on the hood and front fenders. The hood went pretty easy, … Continue reading
After a pleasant break to get the ’40 Ford settled in the garage and to spend a bit of time looking it over and deciding what needs to be done, I got back to work on the Dodge. The body … Continue reading
Up until this point I have been uphappy with the way I have been doing the masking, it was taking forever and was not working as good as I thought it should, So I decided to improve upon my technique … Continue reading
Now that we have the entire body surface sealed with V-Seal, we can mask off the portion of the body that will be painted 1968 Ford Mustang Mandarin Orange. Spraying the Body Driftwood Beige Once the masking was complete it … Continue reading
Time to clean everything up and mask off all the openings into the interior so that I can seal the entire body with PPG V-Seal 3025. Ugh, more masking, I had forgotten that I disliked masking as much as I … Continue reading
After more masking … I am beginning to think that I would have been better off if I had removed the doors for painting, seems like I have almost as much time in masking as I have in sanding. Again, … Continue reading