Some interesting pictures of the rainbow of colours that came under some of the these Mustangs, dependent on body colour and
the factory building the car. This one that we're doing in our shop, has the 'slop gray' paint underneath (that we scanned and obtained a formula for) and orange body colour oversprayed all over it, followed by the black from the pinch welds on the sills. Note the reproduction of the factory drips in the paint underneath. These are not as easy to reproduce as you'd think, as the factory basically hosed this paint on with a pressure washer style attachment with little care as to how much product they applied and then the car was cooked in the oven, drying up the drips. Very hard to reproduce, but we're happy that we can get it fairly close. You can never avoid a paint run when you don't want one and when you want them everywhere, you can't get as many as you want! Murphy's law!
the factory building the car. This one that we're doing in our shop, has the 'slop gray' paint underneath (that we scanned and obtained a formula for) and orange body colour oversprayed all over it, followed by the black from the pinch welds on the sills. Note the reproduction of the factory drips in the paint underneath. These are not as easy to reproduce as you'd think, as the factory basically hosed this paint on with a pressure washer style attachment with little care as to how much product they applied and then the car was cooked in the oven, drying up the drips. Very hard to reproduce, but we're happy that we can get it fairly close. You can never avoid a paint run when you don't want one and when you want them everywhere, you can't get as many as you want! Murphy's law!
'70 Mach-1 Cobra Jet body fresh off the rotisserie and almost ready for final paint. It's been a long slog getting this one to this stage, but
it's nice to see it coming together properly for the first time since it was built. It had unfortunately been the victim of some very ordinary alleged bodywork repairs in it's hard life, with 1mm aluminum sheet pop riveted to the A pillar in a structural capacity, to hold the doors on, as one glaring example of crafty body work!
it's nice to see it coming together properly for the first time since it was built. It had unfortunately been the victim of some very ordinary alleged bodywork repairs in it's hard life, with 1mm aluminum sheet pop riveted to the A pillar in a structural capacity, to hold the doors on, as one glaring example of crafty body work!
Here is the CJ, all painted and looking fantastic. We're very happy with how it has come up in its original colour. Nice & straight, too.
