hi everybody. well, the laptop is still not working properly, so i finally decided to get all the pictures off of the camera using my mom's computer, and thru there, send them to the packard bell.
now it is no secret that i have never been happy with the passenger side of the spirit. it has played host to 4 designs so far.
1. all 9 members of slipknot
2. corey, otep, shavo from soad, and b dez from coal chamber
3. mopar written in graffiti letters
4. 4 portraits of corey without his mask
I have not been happy with any of these, even though everyone has told me that they have looked nice. well this side of the car has been grey since january, and it is finally time to fix it up.
But this time, instead of just light-sanding and painting over 4 layers of designs (ugh!) i decided to work hard and strip all the layers off and start over. here are the pictures. it took me a week because i had a few daylight shifts at the grocery store to work and i couldn't spend every day at the garage.
the side grey and primered where some dents were fiberglassed smooth:
i began sanding with the DA but it was not working very well at all:
so i decided to use some bumper stripper that i had left over from the front:
two and a half cans later, i was able to start sanding again, only this time, by hand:
after hand sanding all day today, i moved the car outside and used the air hose to clean all the dust off. i went inside the bay and vacuumed and swept up everything, then moved the car back inside. i wiped it down and then sprayed 2 half-hour apart coats of krylon rust tough primer.
tomorrow i can spray the grey paint and then begin my next design. i have ran the idea by various people, and they all have really liked this idea. elizabeth montgomery has always been my hero, i have admired her for years. she doesn't go with heavy metal, but she could go with the evil spirit thing (since most people know her from her most famous role in bewitched). here are the pictures i have selected to use.
