new member, old project, some pics, and a 3 week deadline
 

i traded my 71 to my friend for his sebring coupe, he is fired up about finishing this truck. we're trying to get it painted and on the road in 3 weeks. user name is >]{roo]{ed<, from baton rouge. he works in the dupont paint store that i use. this thread will show pictures of the progress we will make over three weeks of working evenings and weekends. he hasnt decided on the paint yet so this thread will be linked to photoshop and yall can paint it however you want, the best looking one will go on the truck in 3 weeks. heres some pics of how it arrived at his house. progress pics coming when i get my camera.

Good to see your truck went to a good home..

Lots of work for a 3 week deadline.Looking forward to seeing the progress

Good luck

Sounds like a episode of OCC, trying to meet the deadline....

Good luck, keep us posted...

Good luck!

3 weeks??? got cash and a bus load of friends...good luck!

A good friend of mine runs a body shop, I'm often impressed at how fast they can turn something like this around when they put their minds to it.

John
'67 M37B1
'67 Galaxie Convertible
'67 GMC

The right people, the right tools and a couple bags of cash can get a lot of otherwise impossible things done very quickly,and never say never!!!!!!!! :)

update, bodywork is at 80%. Handles are getting shaved as we speak. pics coming soon. rain delaying progress. 2 weeks left.

Oh my God....can you please un-encrypt that user name. I have stared at it for 15 minutes and still don't get it.

My guess is "Krooked"

I can see that it I cross my eyes...

Krooked has been workin on this thing balls to the wall. doors are shaved, and electronics are done. interior is painted, new dash pad, factory radio, buckets from 9- chevy, carpet from my 72, painted dash bezel, blue dash lights, and bowtie door sill plates. when i left my friends shop last night they were planning on priming the whole thing for the last time that morning. it might get painted this week. i have pics but they must be messed up because it wont let me view the email.

primed and guide coated (thurs night)

interior done, painted, radio, dash pad, guages, buckets, carpet, bowtie sill plates, and a new grant to replact that pos that i had in it for 4 years

taped. its funny that i do this for a living and have access to a booth. Chris (krooked) is a dupont rep and has access to any booth in the city, and were painting the truck in a friends friggin dusty shop.

dupont rep spraying without a mask

check out that state of the art marlboro paint mask

sealed with dupont something sealer. dark on the bottom, light on the top. dust in everything from spraying down to up instead of up to down. were sanding it and re-shooting tomorrow. its too damn cold to paint tonight too.

reminds me of stories from my dad's youth. He had a buddy named charlie that used to paint for an Earl Scheib. He'd show up to work and paint with a lucky strike hanging out of his mouth, a plastic bag over his head and a pair of house shoes.


And just in case you guys think that this guy didn't know what he was doing, from the pics I've seen, the guy was a Da Vinci with the spray gun. My dad street raced a 62 bel air that he took to charlie to get painted. Said "do whatever you want to it." Charlie started by laying a layer of white, then set the pressure reeeallly low and shot black and red spiderwebs on it, and did the same treatment to the wheels (steelies with dog dishes). then he cut and buffed it. Dad has a pic of that car where he's taking a picture directly over the hood, and the reflection on the hood is mirror smooth. Amazing.

this truck is going to be two toned-white top, blue bottom, chrome airbrushed strip, airbrushed V and flags on the front of the hood.

I guess I'll be the one to ask.Why didn't you use a booth?

I have turned out some nice paint out of a watered down dustbomb garage,but you have to pick the day when the wind isn't blowing:D
Can't wait to see the finished truck.

Man, you guys are speeding on that project,hope your friend doesnt look back in life and wish he had worn some breathing protection equipment.

What do you call the stuff in paint now days thats so dangerous? Can't remember the name but I hear it'll do a real number on brain cells, nervous system, lungs...

Truck is lookin good man.

Wow, I think if/when I repaint my truck I'm going for a two tone. Never really seen one before on our trucks. Most of the time it's solid paint with flames. hehe. But I like it.

Isocyanates are the big nasty in modern paints. I can't believe the lack of breathing air, too. We are sooo bullet-proof when we are young, aren't we. Now I seem to be wearing a mask for everything. Michael

Great pics, by the way. Nice to see it coming together. Michael

more pics. here the truck is in dark grey/white sealer. Krooked (chris) is on the left, friend jarod on the right (his shop)

the silver for the stripe is done

instead of sitting on my ass i airbrushed chris a shirt while they were taping. i have never airbrushed a shirt before, i used Chromabase, hahha, it took all of 5 minutes, but the customer was happy, hahahahaha.

close up, hahahahha. the blood at the top looks great, cant see it in the pic

i'm going to outlive everybody i know

blue is done

i was bored again.

white finished, untaped. small problem with stripe, so we'll hold off on the airbrushing and clear till tomorrow. the silver will be airbrushed like chrome and there will be a chevy "V" with flags on the front of the hood.

looks nice, whats the whole deal with the deadline though?

This is a "reality" forum thread. It has to have a deadline to make it more exciting.... :p

it was parked at his parents house and they werent having that. so he said it will be out in 3 weeks.

That truck is looking good!

Who needs a stinking mask anyhow? I've handeled av-fuel and used to clean-up JP-5 (military jet fuel) spills without any ppe. Worked in mech and paint shops for 10 years and smoked camels for 18 years... and my lung feels great when I'm not coughing... oh yeah, I'm getting breast cancer removed on the 16th too. I was invincible one day too :crazy: :rolleyes:

Your right, I should be wearing my respirator.
But the way I figure it, if I smoke the entire time that I paint.....Shouldn't the filter on my smoke catch all of the isocynates???