Archive for March, 2006

Now, the other side

Saturday, March 25th, 2006

Dad spent some time on the car this week. He’s moving along with shaping the panels and it is looking really good. He also had a chance to paint the petrol tank with POR-15. What a finish! He painted it on by brush and it looks like it has been sprayed on. I focused on […]

Ironing out the kinks

Saturday, March 18th, 2006

Today we started getting ready to work on the panels so that they are ready for etch priming. First thing we had to do was to remove the surface rust. With the car stripped back to metal, and being located by the sea, the car looked quite rusty. I used the orbital sander to clean […]

Petrol Tank is Out

Monday, March 13th, 2006

Had the day off work today thanks to Labour Day (gotta love public holidays), so I decided to do a little work on the car. In preparation of a little panel beating that is required on the read end, I decided to take the petrol tank out today and to remove the exhaust clips so […]

Chip, Chip, Chip.

Saturday, March 4th, 2006

Spent a little time on the car today. Mainly focused on getting the pitch from the floor inside of the car off. Took a bit to get it off, but I have revealed all of the floor now and it looks like that the passenger side is the worst side. The driver side had a […]