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Literati914
post Jun 20 2023, 04:04 PM
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I’m painting this car in sections because I’m not in a shelter and am dodging heat, humidity and showers, etc. here’s a shot showing how it’s coming along (ignor the dirt and orange peel - it'll all be cut and buffed out eventually):


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post Jun 21 2023, 10:07 AM
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Yea, a little at a time:


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post Jun 21 2023, 10:08 AM
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Passenger side taped off, ready for paint:



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post Jun 21 2023, 10:09 AM
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and Painted:


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post Jun 21 2023, 10:12 AM
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The gun started shooting chunky particles of paint at one point, I guess the paint was setting up too quick.. so I’ve got some work to do to get it improved:


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post Jun 21 2023, 12:11 PM
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(IMG:style_emoticons/default/drooley.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif) very nice!
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post Jun 21 2023, 05:19 PM
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Hey Doug, Sorry to hear about your bad experience with the plating company. I know I had difficulties finding a good plating company locally (in Texas) and thats why I send mine to Finish and Plating services in Wisconsin. It costs in shipping, but their prices are very fair and the work is top notch. Good thing is that no matter the size of the parts I have sent, I have always gotten them back, and believe me the small parts I kind of expected to be lost, but nope.

Any way the car is coming along very nicely. This weather we are having has made it miserable to get anything done, let alone paint. My hat is off to you.
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post Jun 22 2023, 06:18 PM
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Nice! Painting is always a challenge in one way or another! Looks very similar to the color I’m currently painting mine, what color is it?
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post Jun 22 2023, 09:52 PM
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QUOTE(East coaster @ Jun 22 2023, 07:18 PM) *

.. Looks very similar to the color I’m currently painting mine, what color is it?


Porsche's Medium Ivory


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post Jun 22 2023, 09:59 PM
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..OK, ok.. it's Porsche's Chiffon White (IMG:style_emoticons/default/aktion035.gif)


I swear I can not lie for shit - it's actually Wimbledon White (IMG:style_emoticons/default/hide.gif)


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post Jun 23 2023, 07:05 AM
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This car looks really great. I love the "painting it in sections" approach... Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. Result will be beautiful... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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post Jun 23 2023, 10:06 AM
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QUOTE(slowrodent @ Jun 23 2023, 08:05 AM) *

This car looks really great. I love the "painting it in sections" approach...


Thanks.. and they said it couldn’t be done (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif)

I’m not sure that I showed any of the under side paint when I did it a few months back, so just to prove that those sections were not ignored:



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post Jun 23 2023, 10:07 AM
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Yea it’s dirty from the car being stored upside down during rain:


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post Jun 23 2023, 10:08 AM
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The front where I replaced the floor cut away from AC box:


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post Jul 5 2023, 10:33 AM
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I eventually found time (and favorable weather) to get the driver side of the car painted. Here’s some shots after I masked:


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post Jul 5 2023, 10:34 AM
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Fresh paint, and I haven’t shown any pics of the doors but they’ve been done too - so the car is finally completely painted. Well I still have the engine lid, bumpers, etc to do.. but it feels good to have the car itself painted (I’ll be color sanding soon):


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post Jul 5 2023, 02:27 PM
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you are a brave soul! That is a lot of work. wish i could do that but i think being a metallic is a more involved process, it seems single stage paint would be less involved, and i am not doing to try and do 2 stage base+clear i dont think. Great color, was it offered in earlier years?


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post Jul 5 2023, 04:09 PM
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QUOTE(DRPHIL914 @ Jul 5 2023, 03:27 PM) *

you are a brave soul! That is a lot of work. wish i could do that but i think being a metallic is a more involved process, it seems single stage paint would be less involved, and i am not doing to try and do 2 stage base+clear i dont think. Great color, was it offered in earlier years?


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Thanks Phil, the color is Wimbledon White, a classic ford color I used because I had a bunch of gift card credits from Summit Racing (because I’m a car guy (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif) ) and it’s one of their stocked colors.. so paint was basically free. It really closely matches Porsche’s “Chiffon White”, btw.

I really like the single stage paints (this is acrylic urethane) for vintage solid color cars. Metallics are offered in single stage but my understanding is that it’s very hard to get done right unless using bc/cc .. however single stage is usually compatible with, and clears are made for, use with them, so..kinda the same thing there. Cheers!


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post Jul 8 2023, 09:42 AM
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I probably should have thought through this detail more before proceeding to paint but I kept putting it off. On the one hand I wanted to leave the lock hole open in case I ever wanted to revert back to a stock trunk lock (so I didn’t weld up the hole), but of course if I did go back then there are three little extra holes exposed from where the roundel was. In the end I just painted. So now I need to figure a way to make this water tight. I can probably figure something out but was hoping for some ideas and suggestions from you guys. How would you handle this:


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post Jul 8 2023, 11:25 AM
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I would imagine a circle of butyl rubber around it and then squashed to seal with the emblem.
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