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[HIBERN8]

Great work Al, looks like your booth is working out to plan! That colour has gone on real nice, a testament to your meticulous prep work. I'll never grow tired of watching these cars get restored, especially when it's at this standard.

[slar]

Ok time for another update........been busy blocking and painting the last few weeks in between going to work and now starting to see results of a seven year resto on old rusty.

 

Painted some satin black on the front apron and chassis rails

 

 

 

Finished the door appartures and sills ready for the blackouts.

 

 

 

and finally got the shell of the car painted....it came out great...good gloss off the gun.....love PPG paint.

 

 

 

 

 

Heres a little vid just after a colour sand and buff

 

 

 

[GMHAz]

Great job on the body AL & the paint has come up like glass, a real credit tot you mate !!
Actually it looks better than great it's spectacular - well done.
Looking forward to see more progress pics

Az

[slar]

Doors getting blocked flat tomorrow......paint Wednesday....I hope lol

[slar]

Oki doki....the doors are done   ...very happy with the paint....., laid down very nice 

 

 

 

Heres a quick vid just after I unmasked them

 

 

 

 

[Covert]

Nice work

[slar]

Got some of the blackouts done today......since my torry will be a tribute car i changed the blackouts slightly around the plenum area.......technically not right but will do for this build.

 

[Ice]

Just love Orange looking great Al

[HIBERN8]

I haven't been on the forums for a little while so was looking forward to seeing some updates and you certainly did not disappoint me! This was the one I was most looking forward to and wow I was super stoked to see the progress! Really loving those vids, it's got me thinking that I probably should be taking a few of mine.

Keep up the great work mate!

Mark

[slar]

Thanks Mark.....more updates to come by the end of the weekend....slowly and methodically chipping away at it lol

 

Cheers

Al

[slar]

Just another little up date for those who are interested.......finished the guards and nose cone this weekend and sat them on the car to check them out......they havent been adjusted to the correct gaps as yet there just mocked up to see what they look like...... line wise

Made another little vid of my progress.....almost there lol

 

Cheers

Al

 

[SmacT]

Looks great! A good ad for PPG paint. :-) With the front guards, did you touch the cut lip yourself at all, or is it just the stock guard bend? 

[slar]

Looks great! A good ad for PPG paint. :-) With the front guards, did you touch the cut lip yourself at all, or is it just the stock guard bend? 

The guard has been trimmed just below the stock bend in the wheel arch....left about 12mm just for a bit of strength but still clears my wheels.

[SmacT]

Cool, thanks Al. 

[slar]

Hi peoples, here is my regular update on the Rusty the Torana and where im currently at with the paint job.

 

Im using videos for my updates cause personally I would rather see real footage than just pics but if you think its too much just let me know 

 

[Heath]

Nice bloody work. This looks awesome!

[slar]

Heres what I did this arvo.....chucked the flares on finger tight to check alignment and painted the rear spoiler.

 

Cheers

Al

 

[SmacT]

Cool, love the video updates and pearls of wisdom in them. My only suggestion is to try and keep the vids around 2mins or so, as people's attention spans these days aren't great... :-) 

 

I am currently fitting my flares, Wilsons as well, and I found the same after they sat for four years or so - a bit warped here and there. I have them on and am now cutting them to clear my 17s. The rears are ok, but the fronts need a bit cut out to clear. Did you need to do much? Once I have them cut and glassed, i will try and get them as clean as yours, as per earlier in your thread. I will get some Re-Face next week. 

 

Keep 'em coming! Not long now.

[slar]

Hi all, update time again.......its been a while but I've been working on the car every weekend and I'm slowly getting there.....not much to go in regards to paintwork so here's some pics and vids of where I'm up to

 

Here's Rusty awaiting more black bits

 

 

 

 

Paintwork is coming up nice

 

 

My least favourite job BLOCKING

 

 

A bit of black being splashed around

 

 

 

 

A quick preliminary cut & buff and on the car they go

 

 

 

 

Rightio time for the guard and nose cone black outs

 

 

 

 

Ok Ill break this post into 2 parts as its getting a bit long.

 

The Videos of the blackouts will be in my next post

cheers

 

 

 

 

[slar]

Heres the  2nd part of my update post.....vids included.

 

Heres the front end and window blackouts

 

 

Windows just after painting and ready to remove fine line tape

 

 

Ok have to post part 3 as the third video wont upload on this post....must be out of room.

 

[slar]

Heres the final video

 

This is how you remove the fine line tape correctly to get a razor sharp straight paint edge.

 

 

Heres Rusty coming together

 

 

 

 

Well thats it....a few members have been at me to HURRY UP so here it is lol.

 

Just the stencils and bottom of flares to go.

 

Would yous like a video of the stencils being done...it can be arranged.

 

Cheers

Al

[BIG KEV]

Great work as usual Al ....I am so jealous