Sunfire Red over Metallic Grey

To begin with, this update is a little out of date. Moving interstate and dealing with the issues of finding a house, settling kids and so on, meant that I haven't put the time in to keep it up to date. So lets take a step back in time.

The prep work was completed and the car was fully primed. Many hours were spent wet sanding the body and all bolt on bits, to ensure good adhesion of the fresh 2pac paint.

The car was wheeled into the booth, taped up, prep-washed and tack ragged ready to receive it's new paint. I couldn't believe it, after so many years, it was finally getting painted!

The paint purchased was Metalux and the colour chosen was off the original paint code MF. Sunfire Red, over metallic grey, with Clear top coat. Off the gun and still in the booth, the car looked amazing! The car was baked at 60 degrees before it was ready to be taken back to the shop for reassembly.

Fast Forward and it was 3 years since the Telstar had it's refresh of paint and the car was back sitting in my garage. Essentially it hadn't been touched due to work, family commitment and other projects. Thinking back to when it was painted, it looked fantastic in the booth, but there was some issues. Orange peel, dust and some minor adhesion issues, due to the repair and priming of the Uber rare USC fibreglass parts.

The whole car was flat sanded with 1500, 2000, then 2500 grit paper. Now I wish I had of gone down to 3000 grit to really remove some of those scratches, but for now we'll put that down as a lesson learnt..

Stay tuned for polishing updates!

Panel and Paint - update

Just a quick update.

Last week I dropped the car off to a friend's shop to continue prepping for paint. Today I finished off the strip down before it receives primer. The bumpers, handles, lights, and trims were removed and the double sided tape from the trims removed with a caramel wheel.

I kinda like the look of the side shirt and rear door pod without the door trims in place.

Panel and paint

The paint on the old girl was mostly original, besides the minor front end paint job, and is what you could call 'honest'. Dents, scrapes and the lingering signs of some intimate parking. 

Over the past 6 months, I've been spending some time in doing some much needed body repairs. The roof, bonnet and driverside rear quarter had received the majority of the 27 years of wear. The worst of these indiscretions were discussed in my blog entry 'Dents, Scrapes and Other Body Damage'.

The bonnet and roof received the most attention, due to the damage they had. 

A large dent resulted in some major ripples through the driver side rear guard even after the dent was massaged out. Too many hours went into correcting this.

Today, I did some final prep before it went off for final paint work, all door moldings, badges and unnecessary trims were removed before the car was driven to a mate who is painting the car.

As she stands before primer and paint.

A mate of mine was looking to get rid of some un-needed parts from his collection, to which I was happy to oblige. The old girl now has a pair of new tail lights.

 

New tail lights!

 

I'll be heading over the help with final strip down on Saturday before it gets rolled into the booth in the next week or so. I can't wait!