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Wow, that is a unique colour. I like it. I remember a few performance cars painted that colour and they were all fast!

My 1973 Rallye was originally JY9-Dark Gold Metallic, with V1Y Gold, or some people claim Yellow vinyl top. My car is now FY1-Top Bananna Yellow with a black top. Wich my wife loves. At one time, I was considering Triple Black. But, in the back of my mind, I've alway's wanted to see what my car looked like in her true color's. Keep up the great work! Patrick

Some work i did today....

Very nice cowl area under that fender skin Hezzel. No Rust!! You would be amazed at some of the ugliness some guy's have found under there. Very Solid!

patrick wrote:Very nice cowl area under that fender skin Hezzel. No Rust!! You would be amazed at some of the ugliness some guy's have found under there. Very Solid!

Yes patrick i´m a very lucky guy with a very solid car
The right fender was very solid to no rust at all, nothing compared with the other fender which i had the lower patch panel replaced..

Small work i did today, Brake lines and fuel line and more but not in these bad pictures.

Hezzel, I'm watching your car and,

Hi Hezzel, I was admiring your car, nice shape , I am also restoring a 71 R/T and I wondered if your bumpers also came with slots for the bumper jack as mine did? I was thinking I got 72 or 73 bumpers but maybe these are the correct ones.

Allthough 72-on was correct for the bumper slots I have seen some 71s with them too.

I have read that the front bumper was the same as the 1970 bumper until Feb. '71 when a new bumper was used. This was then changed again in June.

Maybe one of these changes was the addition of the bumper jack slots?

I hope so I'd like to keep thes bumpers they are rechromed allready and look like brand new. If the dates you stated are correct though these probably arent original. My car has a build date of 8-70. but who cares.

Finally some action

Looking good Hezzel!

Removed the doors today and covered the car so i can grind the rest of the parts witch is loose ,like hood and fenders.

Trunk lid is now done and of to paint shop
More updates will come

Keep it coming

Slow progress report : Got trunk lid back from paint shop and left one front fender for etching primer and primer .
Started grinding the other fender

Do you have to wet sand and re-prime Hezzel or did they do that already? Looks good man, keep up the hard work. BTW, have you guys adopted the new envoirnmentally friendly waterbourne based 3M paints and primers? Over here the US will eventually use it 100% in the repair/autobody industry. Custom shops included when it becomes federal law like in california. It uses water as the pigment carrier instead of solvents thus reducing VOC vapors. The finish is remarkably smooth with excellent flowout. They had to use Saita paint guns constrcuted of internal stainless steel due to the water's rusting regular steel, and some solvents will have to be added because when too cold water freezes and too hot it evaportes too quickly. we didi a Jeep that was dry in less than 30 minutes. It had flashed in less than 4! I am still learning about autobody/painting and it is a true art form. drivelines are for knuckle dragging neandrathals

drivelines are for knuckle dragging neandrathals i resemble that remark

Moving along well. What size sanding disk and grit are you using to remove the paint? Are you having to deal with any undercoating? Just curious cause someday I might be in your shoes.

Eddie : I will probably sand it later on , my first step is remowing all paint from all lose parts and get them primed .

Jon : I´m using 120 grit sanding disc whit slowest speed on the angle grinder then removing last layer with 120 and 180 grit oscillating angle grinder.
Have removed some old bondo in small places only on the fenders nothing on the trunk lid

Update : Both fenders has left the building and will start with the doors
this weekend....

looking good hezzel keep it up itll be worth it in the end
cheers ian

Jon wrote:What size sanding disk and grit are you using to remove the paint?

Here is my favourite tool for removing old paint and surface rust. I am not sure that everyone is familiar with it so I thought I would show a pic of it.

From the beginning it was only manufactured by 3M (I think they invented it) and this product is called Scotch-brite. Quite costly at a start but now I use to buy this tool in a discount store called Biltema (only here in Sweden).

I think it works very well myself and I can warmly recommend it. The only disadvantage is that it creates a lot of dust, but except for that it is great product. One positive thing is that it doesn´t grind off anything from the sheet metal.

The disc is replaceable so you do not need to replace the shaft every time you switch discs. I prefer large diameter discs because the job gets done quicker with them.

Looks interesting. Is the pad flexable enough to get the curves and hard to reach areas?

Jon wrote:Looks interesting. Is the pad flexable enough to get the curves and hard to reach areas?

While working with this disc, you are using only the outer edge of the disc, and not not the big flat area of the disc. I hope you understand me. It works really great on big body panels. Stay away from sharp edges though, because the disc tends to get stuck on them, causing the disc to get worn quicker than normal. I can quarantee that you will not be disappointed if you buy this disc (to be used on a drilling-maschine). A complete disc will cost about $10 and worth every penny.

Eastwood sells several similar items. http://www.eastwoodco.com/shopping/prod ... ctID=12374
http://www.eastwoodco.com/shopping/prod ... ctID=10870
They also have Nyalox wheels (similar to a wire wheel) http://www.eastwoodco.com/jump.jsp?item ... 609&page=8

Have you tried a flap disc? http://eastwood.resultspage.com/search? ... =flap+disc

fal308 wrote:Eastwood sells several similar items. http://www.eastwoodco.com/shopping/prod ... ctID=12374

Thanks! Yes, that is exactly what I am talking about. 3 discs for $30 gives $10/each (....or more correctly less than $10 each since you also get a mandrel).

(Here is the mandrel: http://www.eastwoodco.com/jump.jsp?item ... pe=PRODUCT )

fal308 wrote:Have you tried a flap disc? http://eastwood.resultspage.com/search? ... =flap+disc

Yup, they are also very handy to have in the toolbox.

Thanks for the lead. 10 bucks is cheap compared to time spent sanding. Man, I hate sanding.

Excuse us Hezzel, this is your thread. Good shop talk though.

Jon wrote:Excuse us Hezzel, this is your thread. Good shop talk though.

A thread hi-jack! Hey, has not that happened once or twice before? Was it dave-r?