[T3] Starting to look like a car again..

["Keith Park" <topnotch@nycap.rr.com>]

Got all the panels on the 71 and took it down to 400 today.  Start masking
tommoro..  Stopped at Autobody today and at just the right time, got a
chance to talk with an experienced painter that was there getting some stuff
too.  $360 for the paint was a pleasant surprise... sure glad Im not
painting it Red again, there is a reason that half the cars sold today are
Silver... there is NO pigment in the paint!  I figure even if its not
perfect... MY spraying it is about 10 times cheaper than having anyone else
of skill do it... QUITE an incentive.

Quite happy with the way everything fit too.. considering the doors, all the
fenders and the rear decklid are all off different cars its amazing how well
everything lined up.  The original fenders I had on there were way off, I
was just concerned with getting them on there 20 years ago and not having
perfect seams... and that resulted in a lot of wind noise on the highway,
something you might not think is wrong till you drive an unmolested
original.

Patience pays off with getting them hung correctly but its really the
difference between a cheesy resto and a nice one as well, and contrary to
what a certain pharmaceutical companies ad would suggest, when everything is
well hung they shouldn't go around whistling in the wind!

Could be spraying it next week... weather (and flying ants) permitting!

Keith



Top Notch Restorations
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