Bodywork done!
Bodywork done!
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Brap_Brap

Original Poster:

753 posts

231 months

Sunday 1st May 2016
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https://imageshack.com/i/pnm8vH9kj
https://imageshack.com/i/pncbM5vQj
https://imageshack.com/i/pokOvgqyj

Well not quite done. Another coat or two plus clear coat.

More to follow...



mrzigazaga

18,752 posts

187 months

Sunday 1st May 2016
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Looking nice...Is it Gun metal grey?

Mike Brewer

612 posts

258 months

Sunday 1st May 2016
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Nice one.Well done Mike

pasogrande

375 posts

279 months

Sunday 1st May 2016
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Welcome back, Mike. I was worried you had left the North American wedge tribe.

Nice job. Did you do it all yourself? How long did it take?

Wilf.

Grady

1,230 posts

282 months

Sunday 1st May 2016
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Yes, welcome back! Is the paint the last major part of the rebuild? Grady

stevoj

798 posts

183 months

Sunday 1st May 2016
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Is that a 390SE ??

Brap_Brap

Original Poster:

753 posts

231 months

Sunday 1st May 2016
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Yes it's a 390.

I was tight on time last night so didn't have much to say.
As an update, I sold the car last fall to my buddy Keith.
Keith is an auto bodyman by trade and he did the bodywork. I helped by doing all the masking and pushing him further than he wanted to go, for instance, the hood-off respray, doing the engine bay, door jams et cetera.

Today I took some good pics of additional coats of paint and clear coat. My data plan on my phone sucks so I'll post some pics later on wifi.

Since the hood is off, Keith is sending it in to be refurbished... in black I think.

The paint was supposed to be a match for the original Oceanic Blue, but once applied looked more like gun metal blue. The clear coat had the effect of mitigating the darkness somewhat insofar as the colour looks in the midst of gun blue and the original paint.

Lucky for Keith I pressed him to do the engine bay etc. or it would have looked like poo opening the doors, boot or bonnet.

Pics to follow when I get some wifi.