like the beetle!

Cheers fellas, something I threw together over a 9 year period! The car lives in SA now and now I'm playing on Datsuns.

Nuts!! I love the pic of it sitting outside with the unsuspecting suburban neighbourhood in the background. nice work.

Made a little progress.

Stripped back the old paint and etch primed. priming as I go to avoid oxidation of the panels.

tub stripped back



roof stripped back



ready for paint on one side.. just scuffed the new panel back.



etched on one side (protec etch pro)



Cheers

Ed

TG Gemini
LX Torana
Toyota Corona Mk II coupe
BMW 316i
EK Holden wagon
FE wagon
Datsun 1200 ute (project for stepson.. paid for by me.. does that mean I own it?).

thanks for answering that.

yeah it's prob too noisey for my place to use. I did do garnet blasting but that was on a property and noise was not an issue.

im getting thru it with the paint stripper and it's good how it doesnt generate dust or noise. the stripper leaves a residue which appears to resist surface rust better than I had anticipated. once I do the body I will de-oxidine anyway.


Cheers

Ed

nice dash! I never thought the original brown could look so nice.

Loving the pics, plus it serves as a good reference for me too to see how everything goes back together.

cheers

Ed

looks great!, I'm using paint stripper at the moment and I've got to say it's not fun anymore..

do you need that special pressure blaster or will a normal pressurise grit blaster work? Ive got one of those normal blasters.. it should work?

is it noisy doing the blasting?

Cheers

Ed

I've never used enamel so cant comment but my experience with 2K has been good.. it's really chip resistant.. somebody tried to key my car but the key didn't even cut thru the paint. this was a 2K solid colour.