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I'll title this one in the words of Crocodile Dundee when some rough looking guy pulled out a piece of rusty metal on him... "Call that rust? THIS is rust..."
Anyway enough of this idle chitchat, I've got it masked up at the moment so I can spray the roof. I rubbed it down a few weeks back but got busy workwise so it sat for a few weeks. Managed to lay down some primer over the last few days and it went better than expected. The only place I buggered it up was hung over and unfed this morning along the rain gutters where I've got some runs. It's exceptionally difficult to get the paint to go in there!
The idea behind doing the roof before the rest of the car is I can do all my fillering and sanding with the doors on and the dust won't end up in the car. While I'm doing that I can get it MOT'd and be driving it and just pop the doors off when it's ready to paint when the weather is good.
I also started looking at the damage round the back and SURPRISE!!! the rot had really set in. Looks like the car had been rear ended at some point in the past and rather than repair the metal the back of the car has been sculpted from a solid chunk of filler. I gashed out this chunk which is about 3/4" thick:
I scored a couple of rear panels off eBay. I think I paid a bit over the odds for them but I really needed the things as you'll see in a bit. I was offered some rear 1/4 panels cut off a car but I wanted something virginal and unfettered so these were ideal. This was the horror show hiding underneath:
And a bit closer on the really crusty bit...
Anyway enough of this idle chitchat, I've got it masked up at the moment so I can spray the roof. I rubbed it down a few weeks back but got busy workwise so it sat for a few weeks. Managed to lay down some primer over the last few days and it went better than expected. The only place I buggered it up was hung over and unfed this morning along the rain gutters where I've got some runs. It's exceptionally difficult to get the paint to go in there!
The idea behind doing the roof before the rest of the car is I can do all my fillering and sanding with the doors on and the dust won't end up in the car. While I'm doing that I can get it MOT'd and be driving it and just pop the doors off when it's ready to paint when the weather is good.
I also started looking at the damage round the back and SURPRISE!!! the rot had really set in. Looks like the car had been rear ended at some point in the past and rather than repair the metal the back of the car has been sculpted from a solid chunk of filler. I gashed out this chunk which is about 3/4" thick:
I scored a couple of rear panels off eBay. I think I paid a bit over the odds for them but I really needed the things as you'll see in a bit. I was offered some rear 1/4 panels cut off a car but I wanted something virginal and unfettered so these were ideal. This was the horror show hiding underneath:
And a bit closer on the really crusty bit...
