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WoW, beautiful. Your car is amazing

Engine bay is so tidy and clean and the outside immaculate.

really impressed with your effort

Thanks Richard ! I do try to keep it as clean as possible

See you at the 25th anniversary meet?

Thanks.

Over 200 hours. Easy, i dont really know. Over 6 months.

But it shows you really can polish a turd. ;)

How to:

Disassemlbe as much as possible, wash, sand 40 grit to help the paint stripper, tape and mask up the car, paint stripper x2, wash, panel beating, wipe with prepsol then a tack rag, mask up, etch primer, bog, sand 120, bog, sand 180, dust off, prepsol, tack rag, mask up, 6 coats spray putty and a guide coat, block sand 400, bog and skim putty, guide coat, block sand 400, wash, prepsol, tack rag, if its good now you can mask up and do a coat of primer/sealer, a light sand 800, dust, 6 coats of colour, light sand 800, dust, prepsol, tack rag, re- mask, 1 coat of colour, 6 coats of clear, wait a month for it to cure, sand very carefully 1200-1500, coarse buffing x2, medium buffing x2, fine buffing, lime prime light to prep the paint, hard wax, soft wax, sealer, recondition the rubbers as much as possible, clean and detail everything else, polish all the fingerprints and dust off, park in the sun and admire.

Thats about as short as i can describe it.

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Oh lordy a commodore ute on SAU. I did not think I would live to see the day :P

Blasphemy

may Rajab not be a watching as an anonymous user or we will all perish ................

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