My 65 Australian MKI

[gr8kornholio]

Yea, I look forward to playing with the motor once it's all back together. 

Just put in my interior order from Newton Commercial.  Brexit vote coming up on Jan. 15th and people are forcasting the pound to rise compared to the dollar. 

[94touring]

I haven't posted any updates in here in some time.  The metal work has been done and body prep underway.  A couple weeks ago ordered fiesta yellow from tcp globals auto color library to compare to the test fiesta yellow Mark had.  The auto color library is about the only source I know that has old formulas to be able to mix an exact match.  Did a side by side comparison and it's pretty close.  Had my paint supplier mix up half a gallon in the material I like to use and bought other shop supplies I've been short on.  Won't be long before it's got color on it.  Roof is going to be pepper white. 

[BruceK]

Cool!   Going to be exciting to see it come together. 

[94touring]

Sanding and sanding and more sanding.  Still some minor low spots and a few dings to attend to.

[gr8kornholio]

It all shows up in the sanding.  Nice that you can bag up the room so no more dust all over everything else.  Brings back nightmares of the tile removal in the house earlier this year. 

[94touring]

Yesterday was a day of shop cleanup.  Still dust and crap everywhere from just general shop work.  Can't imagine not having the plastic walls lowered and a fan exhausting the dust outside.

[MiniDave]

Can't help the dust when you have a body shop....all you can do is manage it.

Can't wait to see some color going on.  4.gif

[94touring]

Won't be long now.  Calling it a day while some skim coat dries. 

[gr8kornholio]

We got color!

[94touring]

Should get that clear on today.  Have one tiniest of runs hidden low along the gutter corner to knock down and one spot of sanding marks that showed up to quickly go over.  May not even notice them once clear is on but not worth the risk.  Then mask off the roof and focus on interior prep.  Body is 97.3% done.  I have to sand it down one last time with the final grit and need to seam seal a few spots. 

This is what I started with yesterday.  Little putty here and there for pin holes and the ever so slight low spot.

[MiniDave]

I love it when the color starts to go on, the car starts to come back to life!  77.gif

[94touring]

Nice and shiny.

[MiniDave]

Good start!  77.gif

[94touring]

Really went down smooth.  Just the standard few dust nubs.  Zero orange peel.  Pretty much perfect as is.  Some different light to illustrate.

[gr8kornholio]

You beat me to the post of the pic.  That reflection is awesome.  I'm gonna have to lie when I start taking this around to shows or you're going to be flooded with requests. 

[94touring]

Been prepping the interior.  Got the dash rail dents gone.  Needs another vacuum and ready for some primer.  Roof is masked off.

[94touring]

Went back and fixed up a section that had been bothering me.  The slam panel on this side had been badly mangled at some point in the car's life, and then hidden with filler.  I did the best I could to get it mostly straight but it still required a lot of filler, plus the lip on the engine bay side had jagged sharp edges.  Found a knockoff panel which I was hoping came with the seam, but it didn't which was fine, aside from it was tricky separating the two.  I really needed a scrap front end to steal the section from but I didn't have one available.  Turned out good nonetheless.  A dab of filler to smooth out ground down welds and won't even notice.

[gr8kornholio]

 77.gif. This is why Dan is awesome. Any other person/shop would've just filled it back in and left it.

[94touring]

Interior prep moving along.  Have some more sanding on the visible panels to do then it's ready.

[94touring]

This happened today.

[MiniDave]

Fiesta time!
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[G67mcs]

Fiesta looks great!

[gr8kornholio]

It's gonna pop with the black and houndstooth interior.  4.gif

[94touring]

Finally got the shell painted.  I will say it came out damn nice.

[MiniDave]

I like it!

So much better than the color it was......