1978 Malibu Project, 4th times a charm

[Wraith]

You can shoot that primer. It's all just practice. My dad handed me the spray gun when I was about 12. You just learn by doing. It helps to have someone like your buddy who can guide you as you go so you don't have to learn everything the hard way.

My buddy said I should jump right in, I can't screw it up and we can always sand it off. 😀 I'll be giving it a try the weekend after next, the wife and I are taking some vacation time next week/weekend away from home and the garage. 😉

 

[Clutch]

Happy days!






My body guy and I talked yesterday and I said I was going to give primer a try, luckily he wasn't busy and said pick him up at 6am and we would start working. Even after all my sanding I still spent an hour doing touch up plus 40 minutes wiping it all down with grease remover then with Metal Etch. We are using Sherwin Williams products/system like he uses in the Mustang shop, if it's good enough for full resto on a GT500KR it should work on my Malibu. Today we just got the shell done, I have more sanding on the rest of the parts before I can shoot those, mostly surface rust and rust bloom from sitting in primer too long.

It looks like a really clean body is it as straight A's it looks in the pictures?

 

[Wraith]

It looks like a really clean body is it as straight A's it looks in the pictures?

I lucked out and yes it is as straight as it looks, even my buddy was impressed this morning when he showed up, I broke his rule of "don't buy a primered car".

 

[Wraith]

Doesn't everyone shoot primer in the driveway?

 

[Clutch]

Doesn't everyone shoot primer in the driveway?

I do

 

[Opie Knievel]

Doesn't everyone shoot primer in the driveway?

I've done a little primering in the driveway before. Dad painted a couple of trucks and primered a few more in the driveway and they all came out pretty good.

 

[Martin S.]

Hello from Hamburg, Germany,
what an interesting thread and what awesome kind of work.
Thats going to be a really nice car.
I´m really excited about the future progress.

 

[Texas82GP]

Doesn't everyone shoot primer in the driveway?

We do.

 

[Injectedcutty]

We do.

X3, or whatever it is now lol!

 

[Wraith]

And the next round of sandpaper, filler, and new hinges have been ordered along with a play date set with my bodyman for next Sunday. Plans are to bodywork the firewall, prime the remaining trunk lid, and set body back on the frame. Then I can get the doors back on to start lining it all up for mud.

Of course I've had interest from one guy buying it but he was in Houston so I think the hurricane put a crimp in his plans.