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tony barnhill
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The last time I was at the body shop, I had a beautiful Tartan Red tub that I was excited about...this morning I have a sanded tub!!
Here's the story (& I'm only repeating what I was told): In Huntsville there is a body shop that only does show cars. I often drive by & think about stopping but they won't let you in the shop itself unless you have a car there! We're talking paint jobs in the high 5 figures after bodywork! Most of the cars they work on come in from all over the country in enclosed trailers. The master painter there is a friend of my body man...notice I said "master painter"...all he does is spray the paint after other people in the body shop have done all the bodywork.
He came by Ricky's shop yesterday & sanded my car - sanded, heck, he took most of the Tartan Red off! A couple of days ago, I thought I had a perfectly smooth body but this morning I saw a few tiny high & low places...places that you couldn't see or feel...places most folks would never notice....& he & Ricky were sanding in my engine compartment when I got there.
Now, as Jack & some of you know - Ricky (my bodyman) doesn't sand cars! He has people to do that. And he usually doesn't do bodywork, he just oversees his people doing it - but he's done every bit of the bodywork on my car himself! And this morning, he was sanding!!
He (the master painter) told me this morning that when Ricky let him know we were building a car for the show in Missouri this summer, he had to help on his day off (Man, now I've got to get it finished!)! He said at the body shop where he works, every car he paints gets 1 coat of the final color that's then sent to his bodymen (not the guys who did the bodywork in the main shop) after 24 hours for sanding & correction of any tiny imperfections they found! And, he said, that's after the fog coat that the other bodymen put on the cars (...& we fogged my car 2 different times!)!
I mean, the imperfections on my car were so small I still couldn't feel them even though I could see tiny high & low places in the paint....he said he's going to lightly primer the body after he & Ricky take care of those places & then they'll put another coat on it, lightly scuff it & then do the final coats. After that dries 24 hours, he said they'll scuff it & spray the clear over it....& we're using urethane, not base coat-clear coat!!
Guys, he handed me the little metal cup that surrounds the shift lever that they'd done the way his shop does paint jobs & told me to take it outside even though it didn't have the clear on it yet....all I can say on the BCF to describe it is <span style="font-weight: bold">WOW</span>....I could see myself, Jerri, Ricky & everything behind us in it! It was almost like I was looking into a mirror. I just wish I could've taken one of the doors out but Ricky wouldn't let me touch them.
And he said it would get deeper after Ricky puts the clear on it & even deeper after it's buffed!
And he's not charging me or Ricky anything for his help!
Even though I don't understand any of it, I'm willing to wait until next week to see the finished product!
Here's the story (& I'm only repeating what I was told): In Huntsville there is a body shop that only does show cars. I often drive by & think about stopping but they won't let you in the shop itself unless you have a car there! We're talking paint jobs in the high 5 figures after bodywork! Most of the cars they work on come in from all over the country in enclosed trailers. The master painter there is a friend of my body man...notice I said "master painter"...all he does is spray the paint after other people in the body shop have done all the bodywork.
He came by Ricky's shop yesterday & sanded my car - sanded, heck, he took most of the Tartan Red off! A couple of days ago, I thought I had a perfectly smooth body but this morning I saw a few tiny high & low places...places that you couldn't see or feel...places most folks would never notice....& he & Ricky were sanding in my engine compartment when I got there.
Now, as Jack & some of you know - Ricky (my bodyman) doesn't sand cars! He has people to do that. And he usually doesn't do bodywork, he just oversees his people doing it - but he's done every bit of the bodywork on my car himself! And this morning, he was sanding!!
He (the master painter) told me this morning that when Ricky let him know we were building a car for the show in Missouri this summer, he had to help on his day off (Man, now I've got to get it finished!)! He said at the body shop where he works, every car he paints gets 1 coat of the final color that's then sent to his bodymen (not the guys who did the bodywork in the main shop) after 24 hours for sanding & correction of any tiny imperfections they found! And, he said, that's after the fog coat that the other bodymen put on the cars (...& we fogged my car 2 different times!)!
I mean, the imperfections on my car were so small I still couldn't feel them even though I could see tiny high & low places in the paint....he said he's going to lightly primer the body after he & Ricky take care of those places & then they'll put another coat on it, lightly scuff it & then do the final coats. After that dries 24 hours, he said they'll scuff it & spray the clear over it....& we're using urethane, not base coat-clear coat!!
Guys, he handed me the little metal cup that surrounds the shift lever that they'd done the way his shop does paint jobs & told me to take it outside even though it didn't have the clear on it yet....all I can say on the BCF to describe it is <span style="font-weight: bold">WOW</span>....I could see myself, Jerri, Ricky & everything behind us in it! It was almost like I was looking into a mirror. I just wish I could've taken one of the doors out but Ricky wouldn't let me touch them.
And he said it would get deeper after Ricky puts the clear on it & even deeper after it's buffed!
And he's not charging me or Ricky anything for his help!
Even though I don't understand any of it, I'm willing to wait until next week to see the finished product!
