SUNDAY, you beautiful ba$tard. I was so glad it was Sunday.
Once home from Sunday breakfast, you could see the light in my eyes die. I had to go out to the garage and polish the car. It was sanded and compounded as good as it was going to get and it was time for polish.
Let's start at the beginning of garage time.
I know I want to put in the windshield so I can drive it. I can't put in the windscreen until the dash has been reinstalled. The dash is broken into two (really three) pieces and barely held together by the vinyl covering. Let's see if I can't unfork the dash, at least structurally. I used some industrial staples (formerly used to close the box my new windscreen came in) to reinforce the break. I bent them into the shape of a staple (not closed), heated them with a torch, and pressed them into the foam. They burned a perfect-fitting hole as I pressed them in. I then, carved a little valley along the cracks and epoxied over everything. Tonight, I'll do the other side...as long as the bottom held at all.
First pass
I'm not sure how many hours I put into polishing the LBDC, but I did each panel twice...and went around the car twice. So I reckon it got a healthy four goings-over with the polisher. Is it as perfect as a Tweet car? LOL no. Am I going to scratch and chip it? Hell yes.
This is how it's going to be for a couple months. I may break out the paint in late March or April. It's going to depend largely on how I feel and how other projects are coming along.
At any rate, after polishing this turd, I pushed it outside so I could fire up the sandblaster. #glamourshots #ihateitlessnow
While the car was out in the fresh air, I set to refinishing the headlight rings. I dismantled the lights and sandblasted the rings. I then sanded them with 400, wiped em down, and then hosed em down with some satin black. #chromebegone
While the headlight rings dried, I took parts outside and started re-assembling the car. Quarter extensions and fender extensions took a little longer than anticipated, but I got them on without scratching them. I then pushed the car back in. I dug for my accordions for an age. I either lost my RF accordion, or it was deemed unfit and discarded without sourcing a replacement. I eventually phoned a friend and I have another pair of fronts inbound.
Enough time elapsed during this accordion mess for the headlight rings to be ready. So I jellied those hogs back together and shoved them into the car.
This is where I stopped for the night.
SO CLOSE.
I need to install the interior, clean all the windows (covered in soap), work on the dash, and fit the rockers tonight. Then, it's a matter of finishing the dash, and fitting the dash and windscreen. I probably won't make March 1, but I'm going to be close as hell.