I took yesteday off knowing that it was to be a nice warm day. I went out to the garage around 7 am and started sanding: 80, 180, 300, 600, 1000; on the body, doors and boot, and by noon I was finished sanding and had wiped down the car. On to the paint.
At the last moment, my son decided that he didn't want to paint the car like the BL rallye cars, but in Mimosa yellow instead. Well I tell you, I kept thinking that I could still see the grey primer through the yellow after the third coat. I think in total I have 5 coats of colour on the car and at the time I was still not sure I had good coverage.
Well it all turned out okay and I knew that the colour turned out well because when my son arrived home from school at 3:30, minutes after I finished cleaning the paint gun, he had a huge smile on his face[:)]. Wow, I didn't think I did that good of a job (I didn't there are a couple runs).
So we still have the bonnet to sand down and paint but now the winter can be spent putting the car back together.
Mark
1973 MGBGT, 1976 TR7, 1980 Spitfire 1500
