Flip's Fantastic reFinish

[fliphkd778]

One more

 

[klinetime574]

Hows the bodywork going? I like seeing painted 60's

 

[Slowerthanu]

I'm in the same place that you are with rust. The design for those rear fenders is horrible, they might as well have skipped painting them.

 

[fliphkd778]

Yeah...I think they gave 62's a strip of panel adhesive at the seam, whereas 60's didn't get it. I just chop out the rot and weld in new skin. After, scuff with 80 grit and use the thinnest filler possible. I'll probably sandblast and por15 the actual inner lip.

 

[beaufort-fj60]

looks great... did you paint all the pieces at once or in batches... how are they matching if you did it in batches.

 

[fliphkd778]

I do batches because of my limited garage space. As long as the paint comes from the same mix and your spraying full-hiding, then they will be all the same.

Rockers sandblasted, sealing the roof and will be spraying sealer this evening hopefully. New windshield came in, brand new PGW (formerly PPG).

 

[beaufort-fj60]

good... I've heard of problems with sparkley paint and doing batches. If you are unlucky you can get more or less sparkles per panel

 

[fliphkd778]

Frame; welded, sandblasted, phosphoric acid, por15.

 

[slcfj62]

Unless you are planning on putting the "snake blinders" back on the rocker panels, you might want to also weld those holes up. That's what I had done to mine, and I prefer the look with out the chrome strips.

 

[fliphkd778]

I'm not sure what I'm going to do about those. I might run them, might just rubber plug them.

 

[fliphkd778]

All sprayed!

 

[fliphkd778]

more pics

 

[klinetime574]

Looks good man!

Hope that gnarly bruise/blood under your thumbnail gets better soon.

 

[jason tincey]

bloody good job you'r doing man. i plan on painting my 60 soon, wasn't planning on removing the panels and doors and stuff but looking at urs it might be well worth it!!!

 

[Tofudebeest]

Boy do I wish you had,
1) discovered my compressor regulator issue earlier,
and 2) snatched the gun out of my hand and said "let me show you how this is done."

 

[fliphkd778]

I think we should spray your roof again. Mask it off like I did my roof, and use my gun. With an HVLP gun, 3 heavy coats on the roof is only a pint of unreduced paint.

 

[beaufort-fj60]

looks great...

 

[Tofudebeest]

I think we should spray your roof again. Mask it off like I did my roof, and use my gun. With an HVLP gun, 3 heavy coats on the roof is only a pint of unreduced paint.

I'm going black on my roof. And I'll decide what to do once I wet sand and buff the rest. I'd be a fool to go for "nice". As it sits, I have accomplished "nice from far, but far from nice", and unless I start from scratch, it isn't going to get a whole lot better, which is OK.

 

[fliphkd778]

I was unimpressed by the finish on the quarters, so back under the knife. After a wetsand and another coat of clear.

 

[Bomar]

nice job. it is going to be nice looking combo.