Saturday, June 28, 2008

Stale-Mate/ frequent Visitor


The next two weeks will be rather slow. My father is having a store in his garage so Rusty is pushed into a corner where I can't work on anything really. I can maybe start taking out the trunk. I'll post some pictures whenever I can reach her.

We have car shows every last Friday of the month in the summer and of course I'm there drooling. This is a 69 R/T that lives actually right around the corner from Rusty. It's very nice, but it makes me want to drive mine that much more!!!

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Look at her curves... and that line




I've been sulking and whining about the body line that runs down the length of the car. It is there and you can definitely see that it is an important part of the looks. Well on the driver's side fender the line was replaced by a dent at some point in her life. The dent was fixed but the line was gone. I've been reading a couple magazines in order to see how to get that line back. One guy it took him 48 hours to work one fender. This seemed a little extreme and perfection was the only way this guy worked. Well I want perfection too, but I want to be realistic with the car as well. So I studied the strategy and technique to get the line back, X sanding, criss cross... I applied the filler and marked out my line to the end of the fender. I then started working the technique. After 10 minutes I thought I would just quit... Needless to say I caught on after a bit and found what I needed to do to get her line back. The first inch took me 2 hours, but it is there. I had about 10inches to get total on this fender. You can see a bit of how the steps were done. It isn't quite done as of yet, but I'm making progress. It looks and FEELS great, to me anyway. A lot of sweat was manufactured for this line.