Junkyard Monday again! Only this time, I didn't go to the junkyard to spend my $50 worth of cash I don't have. I went to the city dump and the paint store instead. It was a sad day for me at the dump because I had to finally let go of the 3 pints of Medium Adriatic Blue Poly Deltron base that I had left over from my first Cutlass paint job in 1994. PPG long since stopped making it's reactive reducer, so there was no way to use the paint. What sucked was that I had paid a small fortune for it back then, maybe $50 a pint because it was factory pack. I also got rid of the original A/C condenser from the V6 days as it was not in the best of shape and had a lot of bent fins from sitting in a corner of my garage.
As for expenditures this week, I bought 1/2 pint of Navy Blue Metallic base, the color I painted the car. I spilled about that much doing a touch up when the can fell over, and it was all I had left to repaint the mirrors. The cost? $37 for half a pint of paint!!! The guy explained it was because it had lots of pearl in it. (There may be no sense crying over spilled milk, but spilled paint is another story!) I also bought $4.50 worth of 400 grit sandpaper at the parts store to sand down the mirrors before I spray them. I am hoping to get the mirrors and the new hinge sprayed on my front porch Thursday after I have taken my Calc test on integrals. Hopefully, I can get those parts assembled on the car next Monday, and the front end detail started too. If so, then by Thursday the body will be complete except for one trim piece I am missing on the passenger's side ( lower molding fender piece between door and wheel arch), the hood strip (need clips), hood ornament and the front most lower molding on the driver's side that I need a clip for. So here's hoping that I can start putting the cruise control and air conditioning together in about another 2 weeks, then I will have to save up for the rest of the interior stuff I need (Tint, sound deadening, headliner, visors, and front speakers).
