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Eric,

Great job!! I'm wishing I had taken more pictures. I've got two digital cameras, but my hands were/are always too nasty to touch them when I've been working on my TR6.

Just wondering, but did you paint the car yourself? It looks like you painted panel by panel. That's what I'm in the process of doing. I'll paint the fenders, lids, and doors off the car and everything else on the car. If this is how you did it, got any tips or advice for me?

Thanks,
 
sorry for my ignorance ....but what is the car in the background? (pic 28)

Nice Job btw...Always liked the Tr6


mark
 
Those photos of the TR6 with the surrey top are cool. A friend up the road from me has a clean surrey top sitting on his workshop floor, waiting to be stolen....by me.

Bill
 
The blue surrey top car is not mine but I wish it was.

Mark I'm not really sure what picture your talking about but I looked through there and couldn't really figure out which picture you were talking about. If its the red car in the background then its my dads 59 Bugeye.

Cain my dad did alot of electrical work for a guy who owns a body shop so in return I got my car painted for a trade off. They did paint the wings and all that off the car then the rest of the car by itself. Putting all the painted parts on was kinda nerve racking and a few scratches here and there but oh well. I wish I could have had the car painted all at once but a trades a trade and I'm lucky to have a great dad and paint on my car.
 
Hi Eric-- you know I've seen your car and it's a beaut! The pics really don't do it justice-- The color doesn't come out as well in the pics as in real life.
 
Eric that certainly is blue and shiny.
I too am in the process of rebuilding, though my car is completely apart, but I would like to ask hoe you removed the nasty underseal from the inner fenders? I am trying to do this myself to save money so I can dip strip the outer panels and sand blast the chassis. I am trying to scrape off most of it so I don't lose too many brain cells to solvent fumes!

One last comment, please put padding on that rollbar, unless you wear a helmet! In a rear end collision your head will make sharp contact with the roll bar; not pleasant.
Great car, nice pictures, Simon.
 
Simon,
My car had that undercoating on it so thick i tried to scrap it off and it wouldn't even move. My car was mostly rust free and thats probably b/c of all that undercoating. I just touched up on some places that were bare with some POR15. I also did the inter fenders with POR15 and put the car back together. I just did a semi resto. on my car. Its just got a new paint job, an overdrive, and new interior.
 
Simon All you need is a really good heat gun, a few different scrapers and an ambitious 15 year old son. Once down to metal, clean with solvent. Thats the car not the son.
Brian
 
Simon,
The best way to get it off is to scrap it, though it's hard as crap to get off, I don't know of any other way. To make it a little bit easier you can use a torch to heat it up 'til it's very soft and then scrap it off quickly while it's still hot. It's helpful to have 2 people for doing this: 1 person with a torch and 1 with a heavy duty scraper. Be careful though, undercoating is flammable! It's won't blow up or flame up really big, but it will burn very slowly.
 
Thanks guys. Brian my son is nearly 19 so claims he's now too old to help!
Daughter is 33 and lives in Africa, grandson only 6 (also in Africa, of course) so I guess it's me!
Simon.
 
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