1971 HLS30-14938 "Lily" build

[Captain Obvious]

Woo Hoo!!! Man, I would have been puckering the entire time!

And I hope you were wearing a really good mask!!    

[Patcon]

Yes, mask was good but prefilters are shot now. I really should have had the Tyvek suit on to protect from skin absorption but I wasn't expecting the intake fan to dead head like that

[Captain Obvious]

Well I hope the paint job turned out to your high standards!!

[DC871F]

Fantastic!

[EuroDat]

Well Charles, you can tick that off the list. A very but tick at that indeed. The end job looks great. Must feel fantastic seeing it finally paint after all the issues earlier this year. 

[Patcon]

Yes, it is good progress.  The earlier mess added about 40 hrs of work but the car was still pretty straight. A little more work on the chassis and some reassembly can start. 🙂

[dutchzcarguy]

21 hours ago, Patcon said:

some reassembly can start. 🙂

THAT'S the best part of a restoration hey! 👍

[Patcon]

So I did some rework on the car. The brown specks were pretty wide spread and very deep in the clear. I tried to sand them out but that made large dimples in the clear,

So I had to redo the job

You can see some of the dimpling in the glare of the light

I also didn't like the joints in the door jambs so I added some more seam sealer there.

Mask the joints off

Run some seam sealer with a caulk gun

 

Use a little lacquer thinner to smooth it down

 

Then I masked off the problem areas and shot some high build primer

 

Started blocking. You can still see the low spots

[Patcon]

So last weekend I reshot the car.

started with white

More yellow

And then more clear

I got some trash on the car after my second coat of clear. So I stopped and tried to use some reducer to get it out. I got it out but messed up my basecoat. So I stopped for the day, very put out. I found a forum where someone said I could stack more clear if it was within 16 hours. So I got up early the next day and fixed the basecoat in a couple of areas and stacked more clear.

This weekend I have been wet sanding cutting and buffing. I should have done it by Wednesday but as usual work got in the way.

The roof should really be shinier than this but I messed by starting with 1000 grit paper. It's just too coarse no matter what the internet says!

I called the paint man who shot Cody's goon and he suggested I sand the roof dry with a DA and some fine grit. So I used some 1500 paper. It fowls quickly but I think I'm gonna be able to  salvage the roof. I thought I was gonna have to reclear the roof. I will try to post up a new 5 dollar bill pic tomorrow. Passenger quarter is done.

 

I have the roof all sanded and the drivers quarter sanded and ready for buffing. Hopefully tomorrow it will all be glossy and I can move onto mechanicals. It's a shame that my phone doesn't make pictures that really show how slick it is

Edited September 11, 2022 by Patcon

[Patcon]

Pretty much done with buffing now. It looks pretty good especially for being shot in a dirty shop.

[Patcon]

So I have starting looking for some exterior parts. Tail light strips seem to be available, but early car Quarter badges seem to be scarce. Also one listing I saw suggested they were handed. Is that correct? I need to look around and see if I have any here...

[Patcon]

So I found a few badges...

2 of the "Datsun" emblems are metal one is plastic. One of the qtr panel emblems is pretty badly corroded. I do have a set of L&R, although I can't figure out why the early emblems are handed. The later emblems have slots for air towards the rear so that makes sense for handing. They really need rechroming.

Has any one found a vendor for restoring these emblems?