July 15, 2011

So, I ended up getting a few hours with the car. I sanded down the passenger side and added more body filler to the line and that should be about all I need in the way of body filler outside of the fenders. I did get some sanding done on the driver side fender and also added more body filler to it, i would say maybe another two rounds of building up the body filler and it should be right at perfect. Most of my time however, was spent wet sanding the primer on the driver side prepping for the base coat. It took me nearly two hours of wet sanding with 800 grit sandpaper to get the smooth finish i was looking for. I still had that red paint from the tester fender, so I decided to go ahead and lay down the base coat. I was very surprised at how well the base coat went on, and I was able to coat the entire side three times with less than one quart of the red. I had some left over so I cleaned up the back trim piece under the tail lights and sprayed it as well. I over sprayed onto the back bumper but I really don't care since I will be removing it to sand down imperfections and repair small scratches and what not. I took a couple of pictures as well to note the progress. If you are anything like me, then the pictures is what you are looking for anyway! HAHA! So, here they are:

July 8, 2011

I wasn't able to get as much done today as I had hoped. I spent a great deal of my time with the driver side body work until I was happy with what the results were. I did a very serious amount of sanding and body filler work to the passenger side but ended my day after priming the driver side and masking the rear windows. I'm, still on the fence about the fenders I scored off of a previous donor car, they can be repaired, but I am having serious thoughts about fiber-glassing the fenders and possibly even the outside door shell down the road. Not too sure. I'll edit the post shortly, and add a couple pictures I took of the driver side primed with the top line filled in, I think it turned out great.