GT40 Australia #32 - Time for Rebuild - Page 5

JackW · 09-09-06, 09:47 AM

It brings tears to my eyes Craig. Freaking Sensational.

Craig White · 09-09-06, 09:56 AM

Thanks JackW, much appreciated.

Also ignore the panel & door gaps. The panels were only roughly attached.

Dave S · 09-09-06, 11:38 PM

Awesome Craig, I need to step up a gear and get my car painted.
I bet the pearl white stripes look awesome aswell. Looking forward to
seeing it finished.

Mark Worthington · 09-10-06, 02:07 AM

Craig, all your hard work is paying off. Your car is gorgeous! You must be stoked.

Peter D · 09-10-06, 08:13 AM

Absolutely beautiful job Craig - love the colour ! The stripes look so good that I am sorely tempted (note to self - STOP IT !".

You are now on the home straight - can't be long now !!

Kind Regards,

Peter D.

HILLY · 09-10-06, 08:52 AM

Looks awsome Craig.
Go on Pete....just stripe it!!

Ron Earp · 09-10-06, 07:54 PM

That car looks awesome, nice work!!!!! I know you are excited about getting it home and starting up work on it again!!!!!

Ron

David Briggs · 09-10-06, 11:12 PM

Looks Great! That is my favorite color on a Gt40, mine is silver but when it comes time to repaint, it will be blue.

Pete. · 09-12-06, 09:27 PM

Looks AWESOME!! Go on Peter, you know you want to.

Bill D · 09-12-06, 09:35 PM

That, is a damn good looking car!! Just stunning!!

What wheels are going on it?

Bill D

JackW · 09-12-06, 11:54 PM

Here is a question for you Craig - are you going to use black or clear colored borders around your head lamps?

Regards

Jack

Craig White · 09-14-06, 10:38 PM

Actually I'm thinking about using matching blue borders. Apparently you can get transparent primer for plastic, then paint blue colour. Well this was the info from the painter.

I don't think black would look right.

I really want to paint them so you don't see all the muck that settles underneath the edges.

Peter D · 09-15-06, 12:14 AM

Hi Craig, I was originally going to do the edges of the light covers & rear window in body colour, but when I thought about the hassles of masking / priming / 2-pack painting, I decided to try just putting a very soft closed-cell foam strip (peel-off sticky-back) around the recesses in the body.

Initially, I put one thin strip each side of the bolt-holes (see pic of light covers), but later changed the rear window setup to a single strip with holes punched for the bolts (second pic). Next time I remove the light covers, I'll replace the rubber with the wider single strip + punched holes.

Note - the pics are not too good - they seem to show the rubber as being a brown colour (flash problem) - they are dead flat black.

The rubber I used was from "Farnell" here in Sydney - the part # for the thinner 5mm strip is 536-799, but I don't have a record of the part # for the wider strip (about 12mm). It is so soft that it compresses down to almost nothing (from an original thickness of 3mm).

The only trick that I later found was to soak the top surface of the rubber (once installed) with silicone spray - that stopped it from from sticking to the perspex.

You will definitely need some form of "gasket" under the perspex edges to stop crap & water - this stuff does the job, and the black colour is not all that noticeable as it provides a matt finish, rather than the super-shiny "in your face" finish that paint under the perspex will give you.

Hope this helps a bit.

Kind Regards,

Peter D.