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.
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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.
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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 to get to metal! There are so many layers of paint on that car it isn’t funny.
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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 collection is a 200B badge off my first car. At least I have the full set now.
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.