Paint Job on my 71 Firebird

[Hemifish]

HOK is the madest colours it would be a stand out car in that Green , it would be the Mostest

[rattusrex]

You are so lucky to have an old school panel beater working on your car. No rust helps too. Good topic, keep it up. Eddie

Showing a fair bit of interest there Eddie....just tell us the truth...you do love Pontiacs, don't you

By the way Leigh....Greeeen is nice!

Begins with a P but it ain't a Pontiac. Deuschland, Deuschland uber Alles. Eddie

[sms777]

POOFENHAUSER?.......

[LeighP]

Not much happened this week due to trying to get some other repairs out the door.....he's been lifting some low spots on the turret and sail panels and working the edges of the window cutouts to line up properly along the trims.

[Gene]

Thanks for the posts and great pics :)

[LeighP]

The panel shop has finished up those annoying "before Christmas" jobs, and they're back onto my car.

They found that the rear window opening didn't really line up nicely along the edge of the window trims....so they've been working those edges to get things right.
I dropped the front and rear screens down today so they can trial fit the glass to make sure the molds sit correctly all the way round....these guys are really going to town on this and spending some serious time to make it look right.

First skim of filler ....got this just as they were applying it.


LH side of the rear window, where he's been working the body line....


And for some reason, I'd accidentally spun the selector knob on the new camera to video....so heres a few seconds of MP4

[LeighP]

Saturday - the guys are hard at it...fixing poorly done old repairs.... they hope to have it in primer Monday or Tuesday





Heres the RH side sail panel area after reworking it...the LH is half done.

[LeighP]

Work continues...they are hoping to have the shell primed tomorrow or wednesday.

Undetected previous repairs that had to be reworked currently stand at....
- Left and right sail panel areas where the vinyl roof had been removed and the leading had cracked
- rear LH quarter bottom and rear valance from previous accident damage
- LH lower B pillar at the bottom edge above the sill, looks like a small rust repair poorly done...not rusty, just not real nice work.
- RH front fender dents from old accident damage

[LeighP]

So, we're finally up to primer.....they got it into the booth this afternoon and sprayed some primer/hi-fill on it. He said they'll be doing some blocking tomorrow then next week they'll be fitting up the panels.







And they're also working that damage on the front RH fender...they tell me it'll be good.

[LeighP]

This is what the fender damage looked like after the filler was removed...


Now it looks like this, all metal work, too...not filled up like before...


Heres the base coat that they mixed up to colour the car as a base for blocking it, and also to provide a coloured base for the translucent pearl green topcoat, so it covers better.


And heres the first of the topcoat on the inner door surfaces....over the base coat great...it really looks great in person.