NaplesBound

Colin, I am a big fan of your roof swaps. I just hope the guys doing my swap and cage here in the states do half as good of a job as you guys do. Keep up the good work.

Chris

mcipseric

+1

NineMeister

Sorry it's been a while but other projects were commanding attention....

Car arrives then immediately the car gets stripped so we can start preparing the body panels. As part of the build process we have to align the doors and wings (fenders) before the shell is painted, hence why the wings were the first item removed from the donor car, along with the spoiler/engine lid and bumpers. As it happens, one of the wings was very badly repaired from a previous incident so we opted to replace it with a new one. The wings were primered blue to match the final colour of the car.

NineMeister

The next stage is to fully prepare the shell itself. During the e-coat process all the previous paint is removed from the panels, hence now exposing minor imperfections which were previously filled & stoppered (sometimes by the factory). These areas thus have to be reworked and re-stoppered before the shell is colour primed on top of "skuffing" the entire surface with scotchbrite before the shell is etched and primed.

Marc is having one last check over before the shell goes into the booth.

NineMeister

Some while later......

NineMeister

Next job is to paint the underside, hence shell on the lift, trolley off and onto the spit before rolling it back into the booth for stage 2. The guys will dry flat the skimmed areas of the rear quarters to check their work, once happy the rear quarters will get a second and final coat of primer at the same time as the floor.

John H

In my next life, that is what I want to do for a living.....

certz

Amazing work.

Is that a tape measure on the roof?

NineMeister

Probably. We have a lightly damaged 964 on the jig being straightened, I think Marc was in-and-out of the fab shop triangulating the apertures as a reference for the straightening work.

V

Fantastic, what color is it?

NineMeister

That's just the primer, but it's pretty close to the final colour of Maritime Blue.

V

You might as well keep it the way it is . Wow. The primer colour seems to have less purple in it than Maritime blue. Can't wait to see the end result!

timothymoffat

I must have been under a rock......this thread has so much going for it. RS, 9meister, complete build, hell there's even a 993 Speedster thrown in just in case we get bored.

Colin, can you finance such a project over say 30 years? I'm off to work out the shipping details.

H.H.Chinn

Stunning work Colin! How many clear coats did you apply? I'm especially liking the Gulf Oil scheme car in the background!

sds

very nice topic and car!
...but have you noticed the holes for the dials are at wrong side of the dash?

:-)