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alabbasi · #16 10-11-2011, 04:26 PM

A small garage certainly makes things hard. If I was in your position, I would prep during the winter and paint in spring and of course post pictures so that we can all ooh and ahh at it

boneheaddoctor · #17 10-11-2011, 10:23 PM

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Originally Posted by alabbasi

A small garage certainly makes things hard. If I was in your position, I would prep during the winter and paint in spring and of course post pictures so that we can all ooh and ahh at it

That is my plan....I have to finish painting a car that's in it right now and put it back together before I can start. But I have to rearrange stuff in the garage to free up space along the sides so I can do that. That's this weeks project.

I saw your W116 450 SEL 6.9 restoration on your blog...a long time ago (I was amazed by it in fact). That exceeds both my known abilities ( I'm sure I could do it, I just never tackled something that involved before), but mostly my patience. But I'm sure if I had a lot more space to work and move around my attitude would improve.

alabbasi · #18 10-11-2011, 10:44 PM

I'd love to take credit for all of that rust repair but all I did there was write the cheques. Since then, I've painted 3 cars myself but none had the kind of rust that that car did. I am getting better at it every time,

I did take on a rustier bucket with the 73 280CE which you can see on the weekend wrenching thread. Once I cut out all of the rust in the floor, I wasn't sure where to go and was pretty close to scrapping it. I ended up hiring a professional welder who was able to make more progress in two days then I did in 3 months. I guess that I'm learning my limitations

boneheaddoctor · #19 10-11-2011, 11:05 PM

At my age (50) I'm beginning to find my patience is a greater limitation than my actual abilities are.