Mine is in Mexico! Its just such crappy cloudly drizzly weather that I can't do my outdoor stuff in peace. You get the tools out and it rains. You wanna paint and it rains. Fine! At least I can sit inside a car wreck and get my bits and pieces. I'm dangerous with a Phillips Screw driver. Man that little jigsaw was great on that Capri Tunnel. I had to use the shears on one doubled steel section that provides the rigidity to the handbrake. I was impressed.
The Check's in the Mail! The parts just left on their way to be sorted at new Postal Sorting plant near the airport. They often ship by air to a US postal depot and then by land. But she told me that on average, its 7 days to distant parts of mainland US. PMed you already.
I was wondering about your AC hose, but the yards here get fined if they sell to privates without a Provincial HVAC license attachment to their Mechanics papers. We can add NOX to our engines but not AC parts. I got mine from a yard with no name.
Yup Norm, You R da Man! Since I've ben a member here There is no 2 members combined that could come close to the help in so freekenmanyways as you EDIT>>>>> Your sor'ey @zz it the "wagon of the year"
The trouble with a mini-restoration is that I have too much time to think. I always over thing the job and want to jump ahead. I'm anxious to get to painting but the fix-it list has to come first. Now I'm thinking of black.
Oh Yeah, Black is nice! Oh yeah, a black car is sooo much more work to prep also, any tiny flaw in the prep work shows up 10 times worse than any other colour.
I've got all winter to prep and collect materials. This is one project I'm not going to rush. Luckily there's nothing of significance. 3 or 4 small pea size dings. The old lady that had it took pretty darn good car of it. Heck, by the time I paint it I'll have chosen 7 or 8 different colors and gone back to black. Once I spray to door jambs I'll be commited.
I like that original example you posted up - Like a white or off-white ('cream' color maybe) above the side moldings, and a darker color below... Oooooo - that cream color on top and root beer on the bottom. You'd maybe have to paint the moldings root beer, too..... (Would that go with the interior?)
Before I roller painted mine from Ford's Tiger Eye metallic to this Camel Tremclad colour, I noticed how much it faded. My guess is that any color with Red pigment, including browns and purples will fade, because its the hardest one to get UVA and UVB rays to deflect away the heavy sun. For that reason, if you used an off-white, I'd try to get one with anything but a red pigment in it. A beige off-white would fade, but a blending hint to the main color, in the off-white would not fade as much. This Tremclad Camel doesn't fade at all. I don't know how they did it, but it doesn't. Lacquer-based would fade.
This last weekend I took all the trim off the doors. The window belt line (dew wipes) moldings are completely dried up and falling apart. In order to get the B pillar trim off the window channel had to come out. I touched it and it disintigrated. Of course new anything for an 86 is unavailable. So the search begins for good used ones. Off to the JY next weekend for me. Lincoln Mk VII anyone??
