Fantastic Saturday

The weather here was awesome today. Upper 70s with a stout breeze. I had a furniture delivery around lunchtime so I used the morning to sweep out the garage and pull the car out on the driveway. I haven't had it out of the garage since Christmas!

Last night I took the driver-side headliner off. These cars are known for their "cave-paintings" --> writings and drawings on hidden areas of the car's stainless undersides. I found "Bay City Rollers" written on mine, which apparently were a Scottish pop band from the 70s & 80s.

Front Fascia Completed

I'm finally getting around to posting some pics of the most recent work I've done on the car (since my last post).

 

This was after I sanded and prepped the front fascia for paint and put on 2-3 coats of filler primer.  I had used 80-grit sandpaper and was expecting the filler primer to hide the coarse sanding scratches. Unfortunately it didn't work as well as I'd hoped and there are several spots were you can see sub-painted surface scratches. 

 

This was after I put the headlamps back in last night. I still need to adjust the headlamps. It illustrates the overall success of the eyebrow fix and the 6-7 new coats of metallic silver/gray paint that I put on it. I'm not 100% pleased with the paint but its much better than it was before and it will do for now. I may redo this at some point down the road for perfection. 

 

These 2 pics were taken after I installed new hood and door struts. The old hood (trunk area) struts were completely worn out and wouldn't hold the hood open. The door struts were on their last leg, especially the driver side. I noticed when I removed the old ones that they had been replaced in 2004. I guess 10 yrs is about all the seals can take. The doors weigh 80 pounds you really notice this when changing the door struts. The set I bought also came w/ struts for the rear louvre. I haven't installed those yet as I'm still working on that part. 

Speaking of the rear louvre; I have made additional progress on that. Still more prep work to complete before paint. I never thought that damned thing would take so long. Between Shaun and myself, we probably have 20-30 hours combined in that part alone. 

I hope to make more progress this weekend, provided I can find the time.