Jump to content

Prothy's 1977 Toyota Celica TA23 ST


sheepers

Recommended Posts

so i tried again.

step one - remove all the red and all the fucked up primer and what not. sounds easy, not so much. ended up needing to attack with 80 gritt and remove everything, even the paint underneath.

 

23452880449_2876b7680d_h.jpg2015-12-18_05-20-00 by sheepers, on Flickr

 

 

 

 

 

step two - re-prime.

23739363241_69d97faa1b_h.jpg2015-12-18_06-48-16 by sheepers, on Flickr

 

 

 

however, i was unhappy with the surface and what it would look like if i just 420blazed it over the top of this rough as guts surface so I've decided to just let it dry and ill give it a fix up tomorrow and then colour as normal. 

and in other news this is what a grand gets you in the paint world.

 

23195040753_a39c2a4f44_h.jpg2015-12-18_06-52-30 by sheepers, on Flickr

 

this is essentially the paint for the outside of the car. 4L of colour, 5L of reducer for the colour, 5L of clear and its hander. which should be more than enough. I've got another 4L of colour for the insides and whatnot which should be heaps. oh, and about 3L of clear. and 4L of primer should i need it. i think that makes my third tin of primer for this car? 

  • Like 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Replies 159
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

  • sheepers

    160

Top Posters In This Topic

right so.

came home from the work crissy BBQ and painted the boot with primer.

its been an hour since i painted it and its still not ready for top coating yet so I'm going to give it another hour then I'm going to coluor it and clear it.

i hope i don't fuck it up again. time will tell.

 

23551885209_55bf5572fa_h.jpg2015-12-23_05-45-09 by sheepers, on Flickr

  • Like 3
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Richie came over today and gave me a hand to sand the engine bay. he did a bang up job and now its almost ready for paint, i just gotta weld up a couple of holes where i took off a bracket and its ready to paint.

while Richie was doing the hard graft in the engine bay i made some plates up and gusseted the bonnet hinges. celica bonnet hinges are super weak and fold up like wet bus tickets so I've added a bit of strength to them.

 

 

23606748159_39e3779e98_h.jpg2015-12-26_03-31-46 by sheepers, on Flickr

 

23974612445_47006cf5fb_h.jpg2015-12-26_03-31-36 by sheepers, on Flickr

  • Like 6
Link to comment
Share on other sites

as you can see in the pictures above the radiator support panel is/was mostly black. the paint that was on it wasn't stuck to anything so i had to scrape it all off to get back to something that was stuck. this turned out to be the factory blue colour that the car was originally. 

 

23666057229_4d6587f937_h.jpg2015-12-29_11-03-53 by sheepers, on Flickr

 

after scraping all that horseshit off i sanded it and then put some primer on it. I'm waiting for the primer to flash off then I'm going to paint it black. I'm painting the brake booster while I'm at it.

 

24008387706_990540a8ad_h.jpg2015-12-29_01-39-55 by sheepers, on Flickr

 

24008389906_a3e32e4364_h.jpg2015-12-29_01-40-04 by sheepers, on Flickr

 

23666751239_24aa8c04e2_h.jpg2015-12-29_01-40-12 by sheepers, on Flickr

 

 

 

 

 

 

so in a couple of hours it should all be shiny black. ill chuck some pictures up latter today when its painted.

  • Like 3
Link to comment
Share on other sites

today i started final sanding the outside of the car ready for colour.

I've never dry sanded a car for the final prep before so i spent the morning trying different things and in the end it became apparent that i could use the 150mm DA for the big flat bits.

so I've been using the DA with 400 to knock the tops off then going back and finishing it with 600. this has worked a treat on the big flat surfaces and is about two billion precent faster than doing it by hand with water.

I've finished the boot lid, the roof and the bonnet.

early in the day i was still trying to see if i was fucking up the lines using the DA so I've been wiping the panels with prepsol quite a lot and everything looks good. 

so i started on the rear quarter and thats about 80% finished. once again I've been using prepsol heaps to see how the lines look and so far so good. 

dunno if ill get anything done tomorrow. it was cripplingly hot today and for a while i was long boarding it by hand which nearly killed me. i might take a day off tomorrow. 

  • Like 9
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

×
×
  • Create New...