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164RS project

This has been two great days of reading, and goggling at pictures. Loving your dedication to details and the effort your putting into it. Can't wait for new updates now :)

This also makes me happy that spring is here, so I can pick up my 240 from winter storage and start working on it again.
 
Thanks for the suggestions and the kind words.

I think I have found a way to get the bonnet looking OK - working on that now.

Hoping to get basecoat and lacquer on the car this weekend, if all goes well. Wish me luck !!

John
 
Well. It nearly got painted, but not quite.

We put on a full basecoat a few days ago, then I dry flatted very carefully all over the car, correcting imperfections.

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After many hours of effort, I finally got the bonnet to an acceptable standard - not 100% but pretty good
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Ellis starting to put on what we intended to be the final basecoat
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Most of it looks good, but we had to stop because on some panels small areas of the new paint reacted with the primer underneath. This needs to dry out, then be flatted and covered with an isolator coat - before trying again with basecoat. So, the car won't be shiny for a few days yet, but it's getting there!

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More soon!

Cheers

John
 
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Amazing job man, lots of ideas for my rebuild. Have a '75 164e with the bw35 as my current daily driver, also have one with the m410 tranny I plan on restoring ground up when money permits.
 
I'm happy tonight! It's painted and looking good so far.

The standard is what I was hoping for. The bonnet is about 90% right and all other panels are all 95%+

There is some dust in the lacquer but that's no problem - it will come out when we flat and polish. We will flat and apply a few more coats of lacquer in a few days to get a really deep shine on the final finish.

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Great thanks to my friend Ellis, the maestro with the spray-gun!

More progress at the weekend.

John
 
Looks better than perfect to me :e-shrug:

Honestly, I don't know how you will drive this thing in public roads without being scared out of your mind about scratching it constantly.
 
I dig the 19th pic where it looks like the white pipe in garage goes into the roof.

Shiny paint is shiny!
 
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