wheee!

A little touch up to the rad support top. It had picked up a couple scratches since it was painted over a year ago...

I agree. No sense hiding our failures. If everyone thinks we never make mistakes, who are we kidding! I’ve never learned anything doing it perfect the first time; mistakes make us better at what we do.... .... and I’m getting “better “ all the time...

I fought the Book of Faces for years and eventually crumbled due in part to this dash. I had to connect through face book to get mine ordered. I still only use the app for Datsun stuff.

Facebook messenger is the way to get a hold of them. They are “new age” business people.

Bumper test fit and I am surprised. It is almost perfect! Even after two previous quarter panel replacements. Same gap sizes all the way around. Thanks [mention=25317]EuroDat[/mention] for the bumper bracket kit!! And thanks [mention=11371]zKars[/mention] for the bumpers...!

I am spoiled that way, as my shop is separate from the house so I can do the noisy stuff whenever I want. I know the exterior is coming together but I am still needing a lot of stuff for the interior. Carpet and vinyl come to mind. Anyone have a source for vinyl rolls to cut new pieces? No one sells kits for reasonable prices for the 280’s.

The military gives us a large block of time off at Christmas which is really helpful. My wife has to work right up till Christmas Day so I am left to my own devices in the shop all day for a few weeks each December.

Really good work Jim!

It seems like I’ve been working on this car forever...

So I have painted and cleared all the interior bits of all the panels as well as the doorways etc. Not perfect but I’m happy! Even the hood came out okay...

Repairs done.

More progress.

If it got that bad once, it will do it again.... I would coat it.

Some "icing" filler and a some light sanding will get it flat again. I will wash it down and respray it tomorrow. At least the clear coat wasn't on yet. The air gun skidded on the fresh paint, removing the three layers of base down to the metal which resulted in ugly scars and ridges. Nothing I could do at that point but move on to the hatch.

I was....until the hand held air paint dryer I was holding “ejected” itself from the air fitting and landed square in the middle of the freshly painted hood. Literally popped out of my hand... [emoji35] So now I wait till tomorrow to resand and repaint the hood. I knew things were going too well....

Hatch inside done.

While the hood was drying, I mounted the fuse block on its freshly painted mount. I left space below it for mounting any extra relays I might need.

So this is a shot of the inside of the hood pre clear coat. ...looks pretty clean and no visible trash etc.

The details of the ventilation are in the beginning of the thread...

The details of the ventilation are in the beginning of the thread...

Embarrassingly simple. A curtain of plastic/poly from ceiling to floor, and an industrial fan pulling fresh air from outside straight down through a filter onto the paint bed. I sweep and blow clean the floor first and that’s about it for these edge pieces.