<VV> Jeff Lilly restorations Corvair

Dave Keillor dkeillor at tconcepts.com
Thu Oct 25 15:57:08 EDT 2012


Mark,

Are you going to strip the car to bare metal?  In any case, beware the
leaded seams.  I found rust under some of them that gave no indication of a
problem on the surface.

Dave Keillor

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Mark Durham <62vair at gmail.com> wrote:

> You guys fall into the same camp as myself and another guy at work, who
> has a 52 Ford P/U restore project under way. We are talking paint, and
> doing it ourselves to save a bit of the $6500 it would take to do one of
> our cars in this area. I've shot a dozen or so aircraft with urethane
> single coats, and a car with a single coat metallic years ago, so am
> confident I can shoot the car and make it look nice, however, my problem is
> I have never tackled the body work. My car has three small fingernail sized
> spots that will need repair, otherwise a straight body but a few paint
> chips to worry about. I also plan on shooting all of the interior painted
> panels, engine bay, etc., to make everything match. Mark Durham
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Dave Keillor <dkeillor at tconcepts.com>wrote:
>
>> Rick,
>> I'm that way, too, but I'm much more critical of my own work -- which is
>> one reason I've been working on the car for so long.  I've re-done almost
>> as many things as I've done.  One thing I didn't re-do is the
>> undercarriage.  I media blasted, primed, and painted it, but I wish I'd
>> put
>> a skim coat of filler on to hide the rust pits that were in some areas.
>>  I've taken about three passes on the instrumentation and I think I've
>> finally settled on the final version.
>>
>> I did re-do some of the interior painting that the paint and body guy had
>> done -- and this is a guy who does very high end work.  So, I understand
>> anal, excessive, compulsive, outta my gourd -- and I can add car-rich and
>> cash-poor.
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Rick Norris <ricknorris at suddenlink.net
>> >wrote:
>>
>> > I mentioned to my wife that if I had the Benjamin's I'd send my 67 vert
>> to
>> > him.
>> > Her reply was, you would find something wrong with it!
>> > Who says I'm anal excessive compulsive outta my gourd?
>> > Rick
>> >
>> >
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