<VV> Jeff Lilly restorations Corvair

[Dave Keillor]

Rust is like an iceberg -- if you see some, you know there's a lot more
that's unseen.

Dave Keillor

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Mark Durham <62vair at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dave, no, I was not planning on that. I suppose you need to strip or sand
> down to even check at those seams, though. The car is straight accept for
> one dent on front panel under the front bumper, and three little finger
> sized spots by the trim behind the right wheel, just above the headlight
> right side eyebrow, and at the spot where the side pillar meets the body,
> right side. It had a good base/clear ppg repaint in 1993 and is a no
> accident car. The two could be a bag of worms under the undercoat, but they
> have not got worse in the past 15 years. Mark Durham
>
> Sent from my Windows Phone
> ------------------------------
> From: Dave Keillor
> Sent: 10/25/2012 12:57
> To: Mark Durham
> Cc: Virtual Vairs
> Subject: Re: <VV> Jeff Lilly restorations Corvair
>
> Mark,
>
> Are you going to strip the car to bare metal?  In any case, beware the
> leaded seams.  I found rust under some of them that gave no indication of a
> problem on the surface.
>
> Dave Keillor
>
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Mark Durham <62vair at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> You guys fall into the same camp as myself and another guy at work, who
>> has a 52 Ford P/U restore project under way. We are talking paint, and
>> doing it ourselves to save a bit of the $6500 it would take to do one of
>> our cars in this area. I've shot a dozen or so aircraft with urethane
>> single coats, and a car with a single coat metallic years ago, so am
>> confident I can shoot the car and make it look nice, however, my problem is
>> I have never tackled the body work. My car has three small fingernail sized
>> spots that will need repair, otherwise a straight body but a few paint
>> chips to worry about. I also plan on shooting all of the interior painted
>> panels, engine bay, etc., to make everything match. Mark Durham
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Dave Keillor <dkeillor at tconcepts.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Rick,
>>> I'm that way, too, but I'm much more critical of my own work -- which is
>>> one reason I've been working on the car for so long.  I've re-done almost
>>> as many things as I've done.  One thing I didn't re-do is the
>>> undercarriage.  I media blasted, primed, and painted it, but I wish I'd
>>> put
>>> a skim coat of filler on to hide the rust pits that were in some areas.
>>>  I've taken about three passes on the instrumentation and I think I've
>>> finally settled on the final version.
>>>
>>> I did re-do some of the interior painting that the paint and body guy had
>>> done -- and this is a guy who does very high end work.  So, I understand
>>> anal, excessive, compulsive, outta my gourd -- and I can add car-rich and
>>> cash-poor.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Rick Norris <ricknorris at suddenlink.net
>>> >wrote:
>>>
>>> > I mentioned to my wife that if I had the Benjamin's I'd send my 67
>>> vert to
>>> > him.
>>> > Her reply was, you would find something wrong with it!
>>> > Who says I'm anal excessive compulsive outta my gourd?
>>> > Rick
>>> >
>>> >
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