1978 FLH BUILD PAGE 2
I did all of the mock-up, body work and sandblasting at my shop. This gave me a chance to take my time and push it to the side anytime I needed to actually work on paying jobs or was waiting on parts. I sprayed all of my final paint at Kent Waters Originals. Kent builds custom resto-rods and does factory correct restorations of vintage muscle cars. Even though he was trying to get two cars done for the Barrett-Jackson Auction he still was gracious enough to let me gum up his spray booth for a week while I laid all of my coats of paint.
The paint work took more time than I had ever imagined. First was stripping paint and sandblasting. Then came body work. There were only a couple of small dents in my tins so I lucked out on that. The most time consuming part was priming and block sanding. I put about 10 coats of primer on before the color started.
The first coat of primer was a non sanding ultra high zinc content paint made by Valspar. Next came two coats of high build sandable primer then came a coat of standard primer before the block sanding began. I did not want to risk getting into the protective coating of the zinc based primer. Then the tedious chore of priming and block sanding began.
TANKS GET STRIPPED TO THE METAL AND REPAIRED
FENDERS STRIPPED TO METAL AND PREPPED FOR PAINT
INSIDES OF FENDERS WERE COATED WITH SPRAY-ON TRUCK BED LINER
TOURPAK REPAIRED AND COATED WITH A FRESH LAYER OF RESIN
TOURPAC PRIMED & BLOCK SANDED AT LEAST A DOZEN TIMES
I VARIED MY COLORS OF PRIMER SO THAT I COULD SEE MY HIGH & LOW SPOTS MORE CLEARLY
BUSTED OLD PANHEAD CHAIN GUARD GETS BLASTED & WELDED
ALONG WITH A NEW MOUNTING TAB WELDED ON VINTAGE OIL TANK
I FOUND A VINTAGE OLD TOOL BOX AND REFURBISHED TO ALMOST AS GOOD AS NEW
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