Steve has a mandatory leave every 90 days. The second one is almost over (he leaves on Wednesday - booh!). For this trip, he came home for two weeks. You would think he would have used the time to just goof off but he decided to strip and repaint our son, Ryan's car. It's a little Subie we picked up real cheap. It runs like a clock and the tires still had the stickers on them (18' tires - kaching) but some hoser had painted it WRX blue with a roller - LOL! So it looked pretty wretched.
He and the boy used the Hotsy to blow the paint off, sanded the rest, and repainted it. it's a real weird color. They were going for a satin black but didn't have enough flattening agent in the clear so it came up with more shine than intended. The color underneath is actually epoxy DP. Kind of a neat look. All new headlamps/tail lamps, found a used spoiler and added it etc.
Neat kid's car. Ryan just got his permit so he's really diggin it. Next step is interior and painting the wheels.
So much for Steve's "vacation". But he's happy, and the boy is ecstatic so it's all good.
angela
