Large Scale Build

I have most of my new parts and a second batch to pick up Monday.

New exhaust is installed

Tomorrow is the big day. Going to shoot her Sunday afternoon.

Looking good, no great

Color and clear







is on and I have been color sanding hoping to be ready to polish in a week or two

Beautiful Mitch. 

Looks great Mitch, how many coats of clear is on it?

Thanks Buck and Gary

dublin boy wrote:Looks great Mitch, how many coats of clear is on it?

Thanks Shay. I have 4 coats of clear with last two pretty heavy. I am color sanding a handful of runs out.

The horizontal surfaces flowed out pretty well but I got a touch of orange peel on the vertical surfaces even with the heavy handed coats of clear.

Since I painted it in a residential garage and not a paint booth there is some dust nibs to rub off as well.

All in all with this being my first paint job, in my garage, with low budget equipment, I'm happy with the results and hope I don't mess it up when I buff it out.

Looks very nice to me...

All the hard work is done Mitch, just go easy with the polishing.

I should think you would be Mitch, I think it looks brilliant. Well done buddy!

Looks great, Mitch.

Outstanding work.

Thanks for the props guys.

My dad and nephew are flying in from Kansas this weekend so I won't be working on it for a while.

I hope to finish color standing and polishing and have the Yenko stripes on it in a couple of weeks.

I forgot about the Yenko stripes.

You going to stickey them on yourself Mitch?

dublin boy wrote:I forgot about the Yenko stripes.

You going to stickey them on yourself Mitch?

Yeah they are 3M vinyl. I used to help put the big graphics on the school buses when I worked for Collins Bus so I've done it before.

Can they be pulled off and repositioned if you make a slight mistake?

dublin boy wrote:Can they be pulled off and repositioned if you make a slight  mistake?

If I use the wet method of application, which I am planning on.

Beautiful paint work!

Lovely color. Getting paint on "just right" is always a challenge between too thin, too thick, too close and too far. It STILL looks beautiful in the fotos.

Thanks for the compliments gents.

Color sanding and buffing complete and now on to decals.

That's a fine, fine piece of work there.

Only on for a minute or two so i'll dedicate my time to commenting on this ....

prep work ..... impressive

Paint work ..... impressive

mechanicals etc ..... impressive

Decals .... impressive

maybe over using the word "impressive" ??? .... nah not at all!!

Only one thing wrong with it as far as i can see Mitch ......................





.............. it's not sitting outside my place !!!!


That is all ..............

Gorgeous!

How's the striping going for you Mitch, is it difficult?

Thanks Snake and Mr. Hirakawa

dublin boy wrote:Gorgeous!

How's the striping going for you Mitch, is it difficult?

Its going very well Shay. I did mess up the stripe on the hood because I let it touch before I sprayed it with the soapy water. It got lots of bubbles in it. I peeled it off and I ordered another decal for the hood.

With the help of my son Rob the rest went on great.

Looks great.

Wow what a finish Mitch! Congrats on a great looking car.