How cool is this.....The Gold Car has a new gas tank and the steel was born on my 15th birthday. Well, not really, but it sure looks that way now.
The original tank on the car was super coated with undercoating. I tried (sort of) to remove it, but for some reason it was a lot "stickier" than the floor pan undercoating. I gave up pretty quickly since the old tank needed to come out anyway. I bought a new Spectra and it looks OK. It matches the old tank very well, but I am a little PO'd that it had a small crease in it, and it needed a lot of work with OOOO steel wool to get dark blemishes off of it.
I bought the stencil from Inline Tube and once I got it I decided to do a little customization. I moved some of the numbers around and voila ended up with a tank made from steel produced on my 15th birthday. Ah, the little victories. I also moved the DO on the stencil so that it was sequential with the numbers following it like on Roundports original tank. It all went pretty well and was mostly straightforward. It was a pain pulling the stencil backing prior to paint and making sure it left all the little pieces and parts inside of letters like "O's" and "e's", but with a pick and exacto it wasn't that bad. I plan to satin clear it before installation.
Here's the picture. It still needs cleaned up where it was masked off and where I reconfigured the stencil, but I want to let the paint set up good first.
