Today I painted missed spots around the car and small touch up spots. The hood and engine was covered and masked. I gave the areas in between the hood and fender a quick sand and sprayed these with a smaller spray gun.
Finally-- I got around to painting the car today. I sprayed it with a sealer first, as shown in the below photos. The sealer seemed to spray nicely. I don’t know what I was thinking with the Grey sealer color selection though since it should match closer to the final base coat color which is a metallic gunmetal grey. I [...]
Over the past week I spent a lot of time sanding out the second spray of primer coats. I sprayed it with the same old primer that we had left over because I was hoping the rough spray surface was due to factors other than age. Unfortunately it sprayed rough again. Since I had to sand a lot smooth, I [...]
After moving the car out of the garage so the primer could bake in the sun, the gas pedal broke at the weld. This happened one other time and I only put a light tack weld on it while it was still in the car. So this time, I removed it from the car which was more of a pain [...]
Here is a photo of the inflatable paint booth I used. Today I proceeded to prepare the surface by cleaning with wax and grease remover and priming it again.
I accidentally created more work for myself today by putting a big dent in the passenger side of the front fender and this was the side with the new fender! I was backing the car out of the garage to sand the primer further . Do to being stressed that day, I was not paying attention that the passenger side [...]
