Archive for March, 2005

Strip the rest

Saturday, March 26th, 2005

Now that the roof has been stripped back to metal, we have decided to strip the rest of the car back to metal as well. By ‘the rest of the car’ I mean the outside. I don’t think that there is any need to strip bare the inside or the engine bay.

The roof is bare!

Sunday, March 13th, 2005

Quite a bit of work was done today. I finally got the roof back to metal and Dad has welded the Hatch Panel in place.

So many layers…

Saturday, March 12th, 2005

The stripping continued today. I resumed work on stripping the roof and after finding more body filler, we decided that it was probably best to take the whole roof back to metal. That’s fine in theory, but I so far have only about one third back to metal. It’s taking about five applications of stripper […]

Got the badges

Friday, March 11th, 2005

Went down to pick up the badges today. They look pretty good, but I wasn’t expecting them to be plastic though. Guess I should ask more question next time. Looking through all of the old badges that Dad still has (mainly from Bluebirds and 1600’s) they were all metallic. The only plastic one in his […]

The badges are in.

Monday, March 7th, 2005

Got a call from Trevor at Brighton Nissan today to let me know that the badges are in. I forgot to ask if that included the rear strut caps as well, guess I’ll find out on Saturday when I go to pick them up.