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Mr.Mk1's 1980 XD Coonwag


Mr.Mk1

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It drives really nice now and brakes are epic. Who would have thought.

The tidy bonnet is lovely. The top needs wheeled back and etched but its bloody good to be fair. 

Next phase is reset the leaves 2in. 
Have ordered new bushes for these, and some lower control arm bushes so then the whole front is lush and ready for another wheel alignment 

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Well we got it rubbed back and I shot the base coat.

Went terribly! 

I brought this metalux paint when I did the Datsun, and the red was transparent as fuck. Yellow being yellow, I thought oh hell, I’m in trouble. A mate had a tin of mustard yellow so I was all on to bash down the mustard then the topcoat would cover easier.


My ground coat was too heavy so it ran, then a heap of fisheyes appeared. Must have come from the wax & grease rag or the last minute latex gloves I used from a hair dye set.

Pretty fucked off, but glad I’d decided to mask the roof, hatch and bonnet so I could minimise overspray and have more control  by doing those secondary. I was planning to wet-on-wet the base then the topcoat.

was looking forward to de-dusting the shed too but I guess that has to wait!

 

 

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