Unfortunately the layers of primer I sprayed laid down terrible. The surface was quite rough and took a lot of work. I’m not sure the reason behind this but maybe one of the below or a little bit of all: The primer was 15 years old but the consistency seemed fine and wanted to use it up I used an [...]
Today I prepared the car for a whole coverage of primer. I worked the sandpaper up to 320 grit over the whole body prior to priming. Then cleaned it several times with wax and grease remover. Eventually I started masking the whole car off and primed it later that day but did not take a picture.
Today I decided to rebuild the carburetor which was a Holley 600 cfm. The car has not been running right and was dumping alot of fuel into the engine. So the car was running very rich with smoke coming out of the exhaust. It was putting so much fuel that it was getting into the engine oil which is not [...]
I planned on finishing the car without the chrome wheel well molding that was originally on the car. This made it more crucial to ensure it was smooth where the lip of the newly welded quarter panel met the inner part of wheel well. The lip was welded in place so it was quite imperfect with a lot of wavy [...]
There was another large flaw in the paint of the trunk lid from chemicals eating an area and causing a little bit of surface rust. Here I sanded it well and primed it with etch primer. I noticed a pin hole on the corner of the hood. Since it was so small, I added a layer of JB weld to [...]
One of the new quarter panels that I welded on to replace the original rusty panel did not have holes for the louver ornaments (or whatever folks call them - gill accents).I first tried placing the ornaments up near the indentation spots in the quarter panel and scratching the mark where the hole needed to be drilled. Then I was [...]
