More work on the 1/4 panel..

So after taking a small break again, I finally got around to working on the passenger 1/4 panel. started working on the area that was patched 1st. Sanding out the filler and getting the area as straight as I could get it. Next was to strip down the bottom 1/2 of the 1/4 panel with some 36 grit discs to get it ready for some filler work.

Andy finally getting around to welding his doors.

So now with a coat of filler over the whole side, I used the trusty air file and started hitting it with 36 grit.

Sanded...but still need more sanding with 36, by this point I was starting to feel a little burned out from the day.

So last night, Andy's friend Wang (lol) comes over and brings over our new addition to the pond. He caught this Carp at Lake Lake down in Whitter. I'm gonna guess it's between 5-8lbs. Sucker is huge! Although Neo wasn't too happy about the new addition and kept attacking the carp. I'm sure we'll have a dead fish one of these days soon.

Big and UGLY!

The Pinstripe Class

So in our pinstripe class, we usually just practice on glass, so yesterday I thought I'd be fun if we tried to stripe on a car. My Accord became the mule. 1st put in a center line with the stabillo pencil for some reference, and then I laid out my simple design. Next I had Daryl add a little bit to it.

Then Vinnie came in and added a little bit of his own thoughts to it.

Next I had Louie add is own little flavor to it.

He decided to go big...

Daryl coming back in to add more to the overall design.

Striping on a car is way harder than just messing around on glass!

and here, finally is a little design the 4 of us did on my Accord. Maybe on Weds. we'll come in and add another color to it. not too horrible for us newbies!

The Joys of Rust repairs..

So work on the car is finally on the way again. This past weekend I pulled the two creases that were running along down the side of the rear 1/4 panel. This was done using a stud gun. Smore more shots of the amount of nails used...

There were a couple more shallow spots on the 1/4 so those were pulled in the same fashion as well.

Next the sill was ground down of filler and primer, noticed that I'll have to patch the leading edge of the sill, closest to the front tire. It just looks like a bad patch job w/o the back of the repair being treated in anyway.

Some dents on the rear of the sill, this was pulled as much as possible, the rest will have to be done with filler...I'm not good enough to do this repair w/o filler.

Shot of the lower rear 1/4 panel. You can see the botched patch job here.

more of a full view of the patch, I was thinking what the best approach would be, and decided to cut the sucker out. Seems that's my answer for a lot of the repairs...

Section cut, you can see the panel behind that was rusted as well. This panel was ground down with a wire wheel, and sprayed with a rust killing product from eastwood.

The old panel that was cut out...

Panel as it was trimmed and coated with the rust protector. and here, is the start of the welding. I did a bunch of little tacks yesterday, and should finish up the welding tonight or tomorrow.

Until the weekend! unless I do work during the week.