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The DEMONX 1970 vert project Pt2

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Thunder Kiss:
Looks good.  What did you end up doing at the upper rear top corners of the doors?  You know, the bit that is usually broken on a lot of C3s?

demonx:

--- Quote from: Thunder Kiss link=topic=7212.msg1045936666#msg1045936666 ---Looks good.  What did you end up doing at the upper rear top corners of the doors?  You know, the bit that is usually broken on a lot of C3s?
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Yeah - that little tab is a common break point in C3 verts - it's a bad design caused by the weatherstrip rubbing against the door all the time. I thought about it for a while and a used a file to take it back to a neat enough point and then shaped it slightly. Hopefully when the door and the weatherstrip meet they are better friends this time.

silver1:
looking good mate

demonx:
Heres a couple of slightly better pics, still taken with a mobile phone though. I cant quite seem to get the phone to take a decent pic of this color! Even outside inte sunlight the clear just shone crazy and I could not get a pic of it. It'd be better on a cloudy day I think.

You can also see the replacement VIN sticker I purchased and had typed up on an old 70's typewriter. It looks exactly like the one I scraped off. I put this new sticker straight onto the base coat and squeezed it down as hard as I could (not with my fingers) then sprayed three layers of D800 clear - I hope it stays intack without a problem.



This pic you can see the normal corvette red how dull it is next to the Viper Red.

You can also see how much difference there is from yesterdays pic (see a few posts back) and todays pic where the clear over the Black has cured a bit more. I was worried that I did not put enough mattening agent into the black part of the clear, but today it does look satin whereas yesterday it still looked like it has full gloss to it. Maybe it's just the full gloss is now sprayed next to it and I can see the difference?? Who knows!



I know inner door pics aren't all that exciting, but if you've ever sanded one of these things back and taken the time to do body work etc, even to see a tiny bit of color is pretty exciting right now!

demonx:
The curse of this Vette continues.

Today I had a Mobile Sodablasting guy come to finish off doing the parts of the body that I put in the "too hard basket" ... I've just had enough of getting all the layers of crap off so I figured I'd take the easy way out..

Anyway, he's going at it for an hour and a half and guess what - the car broke his sodablaster! ... YES ... this really happened. The car grabbed the nozzle, when he tried to wriggle it out it snapped the join where the gun screws together.

I asked him what it'll cost to buy a new one and he said you cannot get them anymore and he'll have to pay for one to be machined. I was up the house when it happened so I didnt see it where it got caught but he said it got jammed and I inspected the gun myself, he wasn't joking! It snapped in two.

Anyway - he got the rear end done for me to get working and I said I'll give him a call in a few months when I'm ready for him to come out and finish the front. He didn't charge me full price for the time he was there today and he said when I go back to him, as the job didn't get finished he won't charge me labor he'll only charge me for the soda bags used. This guy is definitely going to get my return business. I'm impressed.

Long story short - This car is evil.



On a side note - after he'd done the door jams I was able to inspect them better as there was so much built up paint and crap in there I couldn't tell what was what.

I'll have to repair all the bonding seams. I just spent the the last couple hours digging silicone out of the water drains that some knob jockey had squirted what seemeed like a tube down each side. Yeah - that was a fun job. Some people just shouldn't own cars.

Heres what they look like now:





And heres a pic I saved as a reference of what I want them to look like when I'm finished:



That'll keep me busy for a while...

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