moving forward after euro light change
 

After installing euro lights a few weeks ago I figured it was time to make the paint right
I started just to redo the trunk lid but as you can see I am doing the whole car over
I am spraying it as a home project bc/cc paint
I painted may cars years ago
so I figured at a cost of at least $4000
I will get the gun back out and get to work
the trunk had came out very nicely
I figured better staighten the rest of the paint job that some previous kobler neer had the ambition to take all the chrome off to do it right
Well here we go

Sounds like the dreaded " Might As Wells " are lurking 'round the corner :cool:

Just think : all you wanted was a $250.00 set of European headlights and now this... :D

The paint has been bothering me for 2 years
Its not what I would consider good detailing
plus a scratch here and a ding there
Plus I hate a paint job that was taped off instead of stripped trim
I feell better know got it all stripped down half of the car sanded
I feel its going to be worth it ( I hope ) after its done

Oh Yes ~
 

It WILL be worth the effort , trust me ! .

I hope to paint my 380SL like this, right, with the right (hvlp) equipment this spring. When I was a kid, we would paint a car in the morning and drive it at night. Lots of masking tape involved - and a compressor that you could only paint with 1/4 of the time because it was catching up 3/4 of the time.

All this talk about painting brings a question to mind - has anyone out there tried the cheap "dent remover" that's being sold by Harbor Freight and others? It consists of a bar with a rubber pad at each end, and some glue-on rods that you place in the dent with special glue, then put the bar over and screw a nut down against the bar to pull the dent up to the surface. (Obviously only good for small parking lot side dings, etc.) After the dent is pulled up, you use a solvent to release the rod. I have a couple of very small door impressions on the side of my '82 I'd like to get rid of, and am wondering if the tool might actually work. Comments, please?

I got to start putting some pictures of the progress
Takes time to straighten everything out to make it look right
got about 1/2 of the car block sanded
Trouble is up north in Pa. its gets cold to paint
Strife your in the warm area
Plus work gets in the way of sanding
It's a big job but being older I learned to control and take your time
Then by spring it will be all worth it
I still love the car without those bumpers
Wish they sold Euro or aftermarket ones
I never drive it anyware but to the club for golf
Love that Euro look
That dent remover I don't know
These steel parts are strong not easly pulled
Even where there was rust it was only surface rust and cleaned up
They did build them

Actually I have used a similar device. It had hot glue and did a number on the clear coat on the AirStream Clasic motor home (bare Aluminium w/ clearcoat). Of course anything with a crease still has a crease, those dents w/o a crease really came out. All-in-all the motor home looks better.

Here are today's update
I am so tired of sanding
I just love the dust i don't think I will ever get the garage clean again
The main thing when getting older is to mark and take pictures of everything
this makes assembly go alot easier
If I live that long
HA HA
Anyway I made some good strides this last week
Body is getting to look alot better
primering and epoxy sealing as I work around the car
the epoxy will seal any parts I had to sand to metal
These MB bodies are good metal
Lots of steel

Hey Mike :
 

Would you like to borrow my SLC for a bit ? I'm a mechanic , not a body man... :P

Looking mighty good there .

I started to do body work years ago to save money on my cars
I too I also love the mechanical stuff
Here is a frame up truck I did and a 433ci big block I built for my 63 vette
IT ran low 10's in the quarter mile
Notice some of the 30yr old pics

Wow. That is some old school stuff. Great job. :)