The older sister.. March 54 BD 11 window.

Ian 68 · Post by **Ian 68** » Sun Aug 26, 2012 6:23 pm

Thanks all..

Kind words indeed..

FrankenCab · Post by **FrankenCab** » Sun Aug 26, 2012 6:56 pm

oh yeah nice one ian , turbo type 4 ?

Ian 68 · Post by **Ian 68** » Sun Aug 26, 2012 7:09 pm

FrankenCab wrote:oh yeah nice one ian , turbo type 4 ?

I think not mate...will talk soon though !

D-Train · Post by **D-Train** » Sun Aug 26, 2012 7:38 pm

nice work matey. now get to work on it!!!!

Ian 68 · Post by **Ian 68** » Sun Aug 26, 2012 7:58 pm

I have started...Mr Muscle on bulk order to strip it back to Dove blue...what a shit job !

So cool seeing it through the 6 layers of house paint though, hope I can save it to make it all worth while..

Frog is doing the passengers door for me...but he had been drinking when he said that.. ha ha

baldwithabeard · Post by **baldwithabeard** » Sun Aug 26, 2012 8:14 pm

I thought you might go and do this when I saw it...2+2 and all that.
Score matey...

You are officially a hoarder!

Ian 68 · Post by **Ian 68** » Sun Aug 26, 2012 8:15 pm

baldwithabeard wrote:I thought you might go and do this when I saw it...2+2 and all that.
Score matey... You are officially a hoarder!

I just this minute emailed you !

johno · Post by **johno** » Mon Aug 27, 2012 3:33 pm

took a while for you to come out Ian
congrats mate - have to have a gander soon

Frogsta · Post by **Frogsta** » Mon Aug 27, 2012 6:15 pm

I'm almost sober and the door is mine,I'll show you how it's done.

Roo · Post by **Roo** » Mon Aug 27, 2012 8:53 pm

Congrats Ian. Still haven't really started on mine yet. Keen to see how it's done mate! Great score- better than you would have got off me!!

Ian 68 · Post by **Ian 68** » Mon Aug 27, 2012 9:51 pm

Thanks again all.

Went out the shed tonight around 7.15 ish, thought I'd make a start on stripping the paint off, i know it's a shit job after watching Flip flop do his 57..

I started on the rear panel, passenger side and the opposite side, same spot and the upper rear corners.

I keep switching it about so I'm not standing in the same spot scraping and rubbing away like a loony ! At least if you move about a bit it's not almost as bad and it gives the oven cleaner a chance to work.

I'm using an oven cleaner, spray in on, wait about 10 mins and then either wipe away or scrape the layers off..I reckon I have about 5 layers on top the dove blue..

At least 2 shades of white, a red, a blue, a grey and then dove blue...

It's a bloody boring job but really good when you reveal some dove blue goodness that may have been hidden for 30 + years maybe ?

Anyways, a few pictures..

You can see the layers and colours here on the corners, this took me about 2 hours tonight, hopefully another 2 odd hours and I'll have the corners and sides somewhere near...

Ted2 · Post by **Ted2** » Mon Aug 27, 2012 10:00 pm

Yea nice Ian. Well done fella

byronbus · Post by **byronbus** » Mon Aug 27, 2012 10:32 pm

Nice, very nice... what tool you using to scrape, and do you use water to make sure all the oven cleaner is gone?

barny · Post by **barny** » Tue Aug 28, 2012 12:26 am

welcome to the fold my good man!... just watch the different speed that oven cleaner works when air temp. is up, cheers

57Bus · Post by **57Bus** » Tue Aug 28, 2012 7:28 am

Looks awesome Ian, keep at it and you will be finished before us!!