[The Boss]

Almost looks too good to drive.

[RamAir]

That's some great progress Bob.

[Bentwheelbob]

Originally Posted by The Boss

Almost looks too good to drive.

Har, har, har.....You're afraid I won't drive it and Alvin is afraid I'll rip it in half. You're both probably right. None of us drive these cars as much as we would like, and that holds true for me most certainly. However, when I do drive them I make sure I get my money's worth....

The core support is now coming along nicely. I had a damn mess yesterday when the other primers reacted. The duplicolor is doing great and I have wet sanded it this morning and applied two more coats. I think one more wet sanding and it's ready for color. Heading out to see American Sniper with the child bride and mini me, but hopefully I can get back to it late this afternoon. We'll see.

[Bentwheelbob]

All right, two coats of color on the core and it looks good. This is has been more trouble than it should have been. At some point someone sprayed the top of the core, radiator shroud, air intake ducting, etc, with high gloss clear. It was hard to sand off, and I am still working on getting the radiator shroud cleaned up. It's probably what caused the primer problem on the core. You can kind of see the original and correct gloss in the before picture under the area where the shroud overlaps the core and under the two spots where the front support brackets have been removed. I'm going to let these two coats harden and then wet sand before doing the final coat. I used OER low gloss black and while I love this paint because it has high solids and a very low tendency to run, it takes a long time to harden.