MadaboutKitcars

and clean the mirror you tart

but not bad for a man of 70 :-0

If you watch Family Guy, do you remember the one where Quagmire discovered porn? He had one big arm like that..........

Well I knew I would come in for some stick after my posting, and you lot certainly did not disappoint!!

Especially my close friend and fellow pervert WCA :-)

At least its now widely known that the compressor AND the home gym kit gets used quite a lot.

Wednesday

Put another coat of paint on the boot lid, and its improved it, now the depth of shine is coming into play.
I had always intended to put several coats on, and I think this is three or four at present.
The picture does not show it too well, but I will flat and spray again.
Like JagTVR says, this is the easy panel.....

Don't I just know it!

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Carefully angled away to avoid unfortunate reflections this time I note...

looking good

Absolutely WCA, it seems just about anything innocent can be turned into phallus's, pornography or muck of some sort!

But it keeps us all amused and happy, which is what the forum is all about. (I think)

Lookin good scottie....

Thanks Ollie, still lots of work to get even that little panel right yet!
At least I know what is involved now to get the standard I want.

Like everyone keeps telling me, its not easy, and there are no shortcuts!

Don't I know it!

Not easy, no shortcuts but very satisfying once it's done. Good luck Scottie!

And you want to do it ALL OVER AGAIN Mr T????

(in the style of the elderly swinger lady off Benidorm) Oh, yesss!

Think he meant the mirror pic

Don't start that again! :-)

Thursday

I spent a lot of time yesterday shimming up the drivers door, and at times I felt I was going round in circles.
I think I now have it as good as it can be given the way it came.

I also looked at a lot of the pictures I have of these cars, (concentrating on the door gaps) and while the door gapping is good on the originals and some of the more expensive re-pros, on a lot of the lower end re-pros, it wasn't perfect at all.

So I came to the conclusion that in this area, I will have to make compromises if I want to finish the car in time for Stoneleigh next year!

Already, in order to get the doors half right, I have filed out the fixing holes so much, the bloody bolts are almost pulling through, so now I have marked the best position of the bolts, and when the doors come off next, I will have to glass up the holes and re-drill the again.

The alternative is to use enormous washers, which really is not ideal.

Now to the boot lid saga.......

When the last top coat started to dry, I noticed huge scratches appear across the panel, they seemed to come from no-where, and just get bigger.

You can imagine my joy on seeing this! Talk about nightmare on Elm street!

These were really deep scratches that looked as though Freddie Krueger
had been practicing with a Stanley knife while high on cocaine.

I think at some stage, I must have picked up a bit of grit on my worn-out 400

paper, and thinking I was putting the icing on the cake with gentle rubbing
on the panel, I completely wrecked it.

Well.......... So last night, being a bit chilly, that gave me the excuse I needed to fire up my wood burner, and toast the living daylights (and solvent) out of my boot lid.

I parked it right in front of the fire and it baked for hours, so today, I was able to flat it down and re-prime it.

Looking at the picture this time, its plain to see that the bottom half had such a good shine because the surface was true, and now the top half hopefully will be the same.

After lots of flatting, the "true" bottom half was still green, but the wobbly top bit went all leopard-like.

Anyway. its back in primer, and with my newly found "oven" I can speed up the process a bit.

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Scottie - After reading about your painting problems I had a very close look at my body shell today.

There is no escaping the fact that it will also require a ton of prep. work before paint.

Good luck, Paul.

Hi Scottie
If you look close you can see those scratch marks under the paint on your previous picture.So you didn't wreck it.You find scratches in the primer from previous coarse sanding that you cant see.The smoother you get you primer the better , I got down to about 1200 Wet sanding to get rid of all the marks.it felt like glass. Happy rubbing !!

Yesterday

Yesterday I did a bit more towards my van project.

I suppose this project is yet another fuelled by poverty!

I've always really wanted a VW camper, but for two reasons I could not have one.

First reason. a VW camper would not fit under the hedge archway over my driveway, and most importantly, I don't have the "telephone number" amounts of cash that theses vans seem to command these days.

They start at around 6 or 7 grand, and go up to 45 thousand odd,

So I bought my Jap micro-van last year and here we go..........


I cut the grille area out, glassed in the alloy surround inside the aperture ,
and cut out the triangular bits themselves, to allow airflow through the grille.

I also glassed the steel mesh onto place.

I the re-assembled the whole thing and screwed it back together as it will be eventually.

Whilst I liked the result, I have had a rethink on the colour scheme.

I have been heavily influenced by the "two-tone" look, and wanted the "V" to be cream, but the grille shows up too much, (and in reality should not really be there)

By chance, last night I happened to watch Wheeler Dealers, you know the one, where some wide-boy chunky oaf buys a total piece of crap, and the mechanic spends a fortune and half his life making it sale-able?

It was an old program and they were doing a split-screen Vee Dub.

It looked so nice in one solid dark colour, that I think I will do my van front all in one colour too.

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Is it just me seeing a resemblance?

Scottie's muscles are more defined.... From cutting stainless steel everyday.

Wednesday

Ouch! Ouch! This is becoming painful!!

But thanks Gary!

Much more defined, and Hulk Hogan is a fat old bugger that's let himself go!

Also, you'd never catch me wearing a woman's head-scarfe!

Changing the subject (said he desperately)

Here is a deliberate red herring:

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Don't be silly WCA, that cartoon figure is nothing like you!

You don't have a moustache for a start!

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Landmannnn, I wouldn't like to be in your shoes!

Ow! Just enough truth to hurt!

;-)