old Baja new paint
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 8:19 pm
I have had this one since 1990. It was a loaner for friend who did not have one. It got stolen Christmas eve 1996. We got Baja back in a month. The court held the engine for evidence for another two years. It was locked out from sitting outside in the rain. It sat till last year. It going back to a mild Baja like it was before.
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The rear fenders and spoiler were ripped off.
I started by reglassing the remaining fiberglass. I did learn bees love the smell of the resin.
Next it got dissasembled to a rolling shell. I only had to strip off one coat of paint. I sandblasted the rusty spots, straighten the panels and applied Valspar DTM primer followed by ureathane primer.
It lost its padded dash. I welded up some of the extra openings in the dash.
Next came a trial fit of the glass parts and redrill some of the mounting holes.
I've spent the next 8 hours block sanding what I thought was the last coat of primer. I found several spots that still needed some attention.
.The rear fenders and spoiler were ripped off.
I started by reglassing the remaining fiberglass. I did learn bees love the smell of the resin.
Next it got dissasembled to a rolling shell. I only had to strip off one coat of paint. I sandblasted the rusty spots, straighten the panels and applied Valspar DTM primer followed by ureathane primer.
It lost its padded dash. I welded up some of the extra openings in the dash.
Next came a trial fit of the glass parts and redrill some of the mounting holes.
I've spent the next 8 hours block sanding what I thought was the last coat of primer. I found several spots that still needed some attention.
