1961 3000 Restoration

[christophe]

And back to the build...

 

[christophe]

She is finally up and running! Special thanks to Jim Karaba(healeyblue) for finding a spare lower distributor housing and letting me purchase it from him. The first one had a catastrophic failure upon initial start up.

 

[HealeyRick]

Congrats! Sounds great. Love those chrome pipes.

 

[christophe]

Congrats! Sounds great. Love those chrome pipes.

Thanks! It is the stainless system from Moss. I bought it when they had a sale, so picked it up for around $400.00. Well worth the money in my opinion.

 

[healeyblue]

YEAH, Success. Sounds good. Glad I could help.

 

[christophe]

Progress at the body shop over the last few months.

 

[christophe]

Let's try that again...progress at the body shop over the last few months

 

[HealeyRick]

Nice. My fingerprints have just started to reappear after blocksanding my car and that was almost 20 years ago. :eeek: Once the paint is on, the rest will go quicker. I always refer to it as the point when the unbolting ends and the bolting begins. Good luck with it and keep us posted.

 

[John Turney]

Congratulations on the progress!

When mine was painted, the shop took the fenders off so they could paint the back side. Not original, but helps in preservation.

 

[christophe]

I did not think the car was going to be painted yesterday due to the humidity, but I guess my painter managed to get the temperature low enough in the booth to spray.
More pictures of the body work and the car in base coat clear coat. I had him use SPI black epoxy, followed by Evercoat Slick sand, then more reduced epoxy as a sealer, and finally SPI's Black and Universal Clear Coat.

 

[John Turney]

Lookin' good!!

 

[HealeyRick]

Hope you're keeping the red interior, it should look stunning with the black exterior.

 

[christophe]

Hope you're keeping the red interior, it should look stunning with the black exterior.

I'm afraid not. That would have been my choice as well, but she hates red interior, so it's going to be black on black.

 

[HealeyRick]

I'm afraid not. That would have been my choice as well, but she hates red interior, so it's going to be black on black.

Still should look great. There's something about a clean and shiny black car. OTOH, keeping them clean and shiny is a PITA.

 

[christophe]

My painter just sent me a picture of the passenger door. He just finished wet sanding and buffing it. I'd say it turned out pretty nice! I can't wait to see it in person.

 

[HealeyRick]

Black is beautiful!

 

[John Turney]

My painter just sent me a picture of the passenger door. He just finished wet sanding and buffing it. I'd say it turned out pretty nice! I can't wait to see it in person.

My first thought was "that's not the door". It took me a minute to realize that was the reflection from the door - WOW!

 

[healeyblue]

lookin awesome!!

 

[christophe]

Here's one of the fender.

 

[RestoreThemAll]

Beautiful! My BJ7 is going to stay black. Black shows every little imperfection in the body work. Getting the body right so that it doesn't show imperfections through black is a real challenge. Your body guy knows what he's doing!