Oak Grün1
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Rather than the usual wife beating, kid strangling, turkey burning, drink lacing and general repeating the same lines over and over again to twice removed half-cut relatives “Yeh the jobs all good… Yeah girls are cool… Yeah The cars fine”, I decided to lock myself in a sub zero, self built explosive gas chamber in Cwmbran. Here’s how..
Yes, I’m actually still here. How the entire block of garages didn’t explode I’ll never know. Take several cans of highly flammable vapor, empty them into a completely sealed room with naked flame gas fire and plenty of tinder dry materials, oh, and some petrol. What a cock!
So, this is the ‘big man’ (Gaz) latest attempt to get himself seen on the scene, what a big queen. Nevermind all the guff he’s ranted on about on the forum, I’ll tell you how it really is. It literally is someone’s half finished project. The outside bodywork has been prepped, primed and painted to near perfection, with the small exception of a few areas that’ll be covered with trim. The bay had been half prepped to what looks like the intention to smooth out, but I think it’s safe to say for this project an ultra clean oem bay is the way forward. It’s a clean shell, with expensive glass and all spanking new trim bits, should be a winner!
To start, all the ugly ‘brush-on’ seam sealer was removed and replaced with a smoother, more discrete seal around the edges. That came after several hours of removing all the paint and rust down to bare metal. The rain tray, scuttle and engine wall was just keyed down as the paint was in good condition.
Given the amount of prep work done on the bodywork, it was annoying to see the wings bolted up against rusty door shuts. Just leaving this would have meant sure MOT failure after a winters worth of road salt in the arches. These areas where stripped down and rust treated before a coat of primer and paint.
The rest is self explanatory. Mask off the whole car and areas of the garage you don’t want the wife to complain about, then several light coats of primer built up to sand before base coat. At this stage you’ll be able to spot any problem areas before the final coat. You’ll notice the paint looks quite dull at this stage, this is a 2 stage process with the final lacquer coats giving it a gloss.
As it happens I ran out of paint, great. Fortunately there’s a few areas that need attention before the final coat of base, giving it time to harden before smoothing and repainting problem areas. It’s always worth getting it perfect now before Gaz drops the engine on the fresh paint and fills the bay up with tyre rubber, standard.
Ewan E
Good to see how far its come