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Naked VW Bonnet
HotRodMatt - March 19th, 2005 at 05:48 PM

Not what you thought...


pod - March 19th, 2005 at 05:59 PM

your wrong , after all the other ones first thought was a bare metal job


warb - March 19th, 2005 at 07:33 PM

haha, pitty the mods cant ban bad humor :P


pod - March 19th, 2005 at 08:56 PM

should have left a strip of paint down the middle ,then you would have had a brazillian bonnet:P


Stanley - March 20th, 2005 at 07:11 AM

hey matt...did you use stripper or is that all sanding?


HotRodMatt - March 20th, 2005 at 10:53 AM

Stripper to soften it, bitumen wheel and sanding.


HotRodMatt - March 20th, 2005 at 03:00 PM

Half the car (body) is now naked. Finish the roof over the next couple of afternoons. Dreading doing the guards and interior.


karmen - March 20th, 2005 at 04:17 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by HotRodMatt
Stripper to soften it, bitumen wheel and sanding.



jee, that could hurt and then a hot rod as well, Matt !!!

sand and all that eeeeeeouchhhhh !!


LOWBUG - March 20th, 2005 at 04:25 PM

Hey Matt make sure you get a pre-treatment onto that before undercoat


HotRodMatt - March 21st, 2005 at 07:53 PM

What can I say. As soon as you find a bit of nicky you gotta know what's under it (nothing!) so you bare the whole panel.

Roof almost bare now too and most of the sides.

Will be etch priming before the barrier undercoat, then high fill then colour right?


pyr0 - March 21st, 2005 at 08:01 PM

metal protector or rust preventer which ever you'd like to call it, etch it then high fill it, say 3-5 coats depending on how wavey the pannel is, then guide coat and BLOCK the pannel back with say 320 wet and dry then re guide and it you have any doubts on the straightness of the pannel RE-BLOCK it with 800 wet and dry.

the block part is the important part. (people who do it by hand are just being silly if the pannel is wavey as there hand just follows the waveyness and doesnt make it nice and straight) ;)