Randy V

It's been exactly 1 year since you started this thread.

Done yet?

Dean_Fuller

Ouch! No...not yet. But I'm closer than I was 11 months ago and thats how I have to look at it. Did spend most of the winter working at a upholstery shop and not on the car. Its only covers and not enclosed. I can work in 100 deg weather but it hurts at 20 or 30 degrees.

pcar928fan

It is like eating an elephant, you just go one bite at a time...it just takes awhile! You are SO CLOSE now though...and it just looks AMAZING, so it was time and money well spent I think!

Jantje Vlaam

When i look at your first pic in this threat and your last one you see a slight difference in the car. In the first pic the car has two mirrors and in the last pic only one. What happened? Oh, i see some difference in color as well ;-)

Dean_Fuller

I just need to mount the mirror. It does look a tad different doesn't it?

Trip..

I just read all 540+ posts. This is an amazing car. Your painting, bodywork and upholstery skills are spot on. I see you are out of work, but I could foresee an auto resto position opening up at any reputable bodyshop if only they were privileged enough to see your work. I don't know what you did before, but maybe it could be your calling?

For a car painted in a professional spraybooth to turn out like this, it's pretty amazing. This car being painted in a porta-shed wrapped in fence wire and Visqueen, it is hands down the most gorgeous paint I have ever seen!

Hey Chip Foose, I found you a bodyman...

Trip..

Bill Ball

Dean: It just looks better everytime you update the pics. Fabulous job.

Dean_Fuller

Many thanks. I would love to restore cars for a living. I WAS a structural steel draftsman for 32 years...the industrial construction field is and has been dead. Haven't enjoyed the job for the last 20 + years so other than money its not a bad thing I'm not doing it anymore. Its a shame to spend your WHOLE life doing something you hate.

Dean_Fuller

Thanks Bill...it has been a huge learning experience.

dr bob

Dean--

What --would-- you like to do? PM mesome contact info. I'm working with a group that owns a power plant in your neighborhood. Very short commute from where you are. Could you pass the EEI basic exam?

Bob

Trip..

Well there ya go! Paint a car and get offered a job!

Have any jobs in the Motown area?

Dean_Fuller

4-29-11

Not happy with the rear bumper being deformed and wavy in the flat PORSCHE area so off it came again. I purchased a 3'-0 long x 3/4" x 3/4" 1/8" aluminum angle. Had to cut about 3" off to fit from light to light. My plan is to bond this inside the cover to help hold the area flat. I first used my DA and ruffed up the angle with 80 grit paper to give it more tooth and I drilled several 1/8" holes in the leg that was being bonded to the bumper. I used JB Weld and set weights on it for 4 hours. The bumper shape is much better so far. I will get it mounted Saturday and see how it looks then.

rligeti

brilliant! Looks beautiful!

Jerry Feather

Dean, that looks really good. However, what is going to happen is that as soon as someone bumps the bumper cover it is going to bend the aluminum permanently and that is going to hold the cover in a permanent-like dent.

What I would have been inclined to do is something similar, but with a piece of about 1/4 inch thick ABS plastic about 2 inches wide and then heat it into a tight curve and let it cool that way, Then I would have put it up against the inside of the cover and glued it in place with something that I thought would hold it. I think it would then be holding the cover out in the right curvature that you want, but would also be available to take a bump and then flex back out to the same place. What do you think?

Jerry Feather