Started poking around on the hood to see what caused this cracking:
Obviously a poor repair of some small dents. You can see the rusted areas where the paint cracked and allowed moisture to get in:
Here is an area on front right side (you can see the dent in above picture) that has some pretty thick filler that doesn't look real healthy:
The next shot I believe to be very revealing. The left side of the hood stripped off much easier than the right side. Paint almost came off in sheets.
1962 Chevy Pickup
1968 Coronet R/T
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Pulled dents and skimmed with filler:
Can't wait for this can of filler to be gone and get back to Marson (3M) Platinum. Pulled the front grill: It has a couple of dents and some rusted areas to fix: Pulled cowl grill and door hinge covers: The front fenders on both sides were tucked in at the rocker panel: Readjusted the left fender temporarily to check alignment: Paint is cracking even in non-stress points like here under the drip rail: 1968 Coronet R/T
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Stripping paint with heat gun and razor:
Chips on floor clean up with shop vac: The areas where there is just primer and and one layer of paint tend to leave some color but it will sand off easily with the DA. The areas will filler or multiple layers of paint strip off easier and cleaner: Check out these chips: Imagine how long it would take to sand that off with a DA and how much dust it would create. I did lower portion of the hood (see pics above), the right fender and started stripping some on the left fender in 1 hour. 1968 Coronet R/T
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Stripped the left fender and started on the door.
The lower fender has some kind of a patch on it that caused this overlap edge: I'll investigate further when sanding with the DA. Also found some rusted spots under the filler on the driver's door: Turns out they are screw heads from some sort of "repair" made: Another spot where the filler did not adhere to the metal: Amazing what you find when you take the time to strip to metal. 1968 Coronet R/T
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Dennis, Turns out the ********** Dark Red is close to an exact match but actually looks a little richer for lack of a better term. 1968 Coronet R/T
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Looks pretty bad for the best shop in your area! It's in good hands now.
Good work don't come cheap, cheap work isn't always good!
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That filler looks to be more than the recommended 1/4 inch at the most.
I used a hair dryer and a razor to strip some parts. It works very well as long as there wasn't filler backing it. I was afraid to use a heat gun like that for fear of warping panels. I bet it heats the filler enough to cause it to separate from the base metal better. I'll have to try that if I ever strip another car. |
The heat gun gets much hotter than a hair dryer and softens the filler but not hot enough to warp a panel.
Amazing how many "problems" are under these nice looking paint jobs. 1968 Coronet R/T
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Stripping paint off passenger's door. Notice the bare metal spots in this picture:
The paint, primer and filler practically fell off the door when I hit this spot. I believe they must have used a rust converter or metal prep on this door. Notice that back of these chips: Here you can see some black colored film left on the door right next to some bare spots: The filler was thick up around the mirror mounting holes: It was needed to cover up this: Also uncovered a ding in the body line and you can see there are some holes there. I will need to "dig" deeper into this area: 1968 Coronet R/T
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Wow jim you're putting in the work on!
Crazy how many bad jobs are on it. Fly like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
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