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then i painted the bay with "eastwoods" rust encapulator that I have been using on the Bugeye project. I had some left after painting the engine bay and wirebrushed the bottom pans of Midget and painted 80% of them before I ran out.
the $500.00 Midget is solid as a rock but the body is terrible, magor dimples all over car
 
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This is the inside of the bugeye trunk area after a libral dressing of encpsulator. the $35.00 qt went a long way. I did the inside of bugeye storage/trunk top and bottom, touched up the bottom of Bugeye. painted the engine bay of midget twice and almost all of the passenger area of bottom floor pan.
 
What do you have for seats in the black BugEye?
Doug
 
The Bugeye had some sort of seats that fit the car ok, not sure if they are British seats or maybe out of some other type of car. But the Bugeye is not going to be black, that is the color of encapsulator. I will top coat it once my wife decides what color she wants her buyeye.

right now she is wanting yellow. I am trying to find a red interior color and a yellow outside color that will compliment each other. it is a very fine line to mix red and yellow

sorry I just realized the Bugeye in photo looks black, actually it was dark green
 
mightymidget said:
Midget is solid as a rock but the body is terrible, magor dimples all over car
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Mine looks like it was painted with a ball peen hammer as well.

Better dimply than rusty!
 
I saw the Mythbusters where they proved that dimpling a car evenly all over (like on a golf ball) can increase gas mileage by (IIRC) 20%!!!
 
RickB said:
I saw the Mythbusters where they proved that dimpling a car evenly all over (like on a golf ball) can increase gas mileage by (IIRC) 20%!!!
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I just saw that episode! There WAS a significant increase in mileage with the dimples.
 
Easier to see this way. Looks like you got way more than your money's worth!

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