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Old 10-04-04, 11:25 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default 63 Restro Update - final wet sanding and buffing...

Finished this afternoon with wet sanding...here are some photos..note the car is buffed .these are raw photos taken after the wet sending and buffing..no polish yet.... Notice how sharp and defined the lines are, I am REALLY Happy with the results...I hated to miss the shows, like Carlisle and OC but still will stick to my guns of doing this SLOW and with percision not rushing the process. Shows will be there next year, only one shot to do this right. We shot about .055mm of base and about .038 Clear...about 3 coats of base and 2 of clear.
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Opened the garage door so you have natural light and overhead lights on the body.



Sorry can't get the whole car in a photo frame...







This photo above shows the defined lines that we worked so hard to capture, in other words, many of these cars have been sanded and painted so much the sharp lines have been rounded and lost definition, we worked to capture the true lines as it was when it was made...I think this photo captures this.

Next step we will be shooting the inside of the hood and the engine bay black....then let the assembly begine...likes like three more weeks of work..

On business trip but will update when I return...
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Looks great! The lines are very crisp. The color is as you said before, very silver. Are you doing this in a shop or home garage. Love that split window!
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A friend of mine has a home garage set up...doing it in his homeshop. He use to work on the Midyear Corvettes when they were new and has been doing body work and paint for over 35 years. He does alot of the work when I am gone. He really knows his stuff.
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in other words, many of these cars have been sanded and painted so much the sharp lines have been rounded and lost definition, we worked to capture the true lines as it was when it was made...
funny you mentioned that.
when I dropped my '65 off to a few weeks ago to my body/paint shop my painter guy mentioned that precise thing when he was looking my car over. He was especially concerned with the sharpness - or lack of actually - on the "peaks" of my front fenders. He explained and than showed me on another midyear what he meant as I hadn't realized just how much sharpness in the lines my car was missing because of previous repairs/repaints/sandings through the last almost 40 years. That's one of the areas on the body he is working on is to bring that sharpness of the lines back.
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Car looks terrific. The lines are very sharp. The silver looks great !!!
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Looking fantastic. The defined crisp lines really enhances the profile and in the silver too! Sweet. Your hard work and patience is really paying off when you see it turning out like this. Keep up the great work. Thanks for the pics.
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Sebring silver and Daytona Blue - best '63 SWC colors, IMO of course.
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I agree.... love that Silver and Silver Blue...took me three years to find the car I really wanted.
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Looks great.Im glad your doing the engine bay and back of the hood after doing the outside.Thats how I do it and always get asked "isnt that back asswards"Id rather be doing it that way than to clean the engine bay of overspray and buffing compound,looks good.
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