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> Steve's Silver '72 (Not so) Quick Build Thread, Scratched the fender. Maybe it will buff out.
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post Jan 9 2015, 08:46 AM
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Cold weather. Ugg. We missed the weather window. Now it looks like it will be below 50 degrees for weeks (well below 50 most of the time). Can't really put the 2k primer on in this weather (I am told below 55 degrees is a no no). So everything is on hold for a while.

Anyone have any experience priming and painting in cold weather? Bad idea I assume? Do professional painters just keep their shops warm so the metal doesn't get cold?
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post Jan 9 2015, 04:58 PM
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QUOTE(stevegm @ Jan 9 2015, 06:46 AM) *

Cold weather. Ugg. We missed the weather window. Now it looks like it will be below 50 degrees for weeks (well below 50 most of the time). Can't really put the 2k primer on in this weather (I am told below 55 degrees is a no no). So everything is on hold for a while.

Anyone have any experience priming and painting in cold weather? Bad idea I assume? Do professional painters just keep their shops warm so the metal doesn't get cold?


I think most professional painters spend these months on a beach in the tropics living off the $$$$ made painting 914s the rest of the year.

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post Jan 9 2015, 05:21 PM
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I think we are back in business. A friend of a friend has a climate-controlled booth.
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post Jan 10 2015, 10:34 AM
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Better ask what your friend charges before you put the car in the both. Price always goes up if you ask after it goes in. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/av-943.gif)

But I'm just jealous you can keep working...
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post Jan 14 2015, 02:44 PM
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Better ask what your friend charges before you put the car in the both. Price always goes up if you ask after it goes in. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/av-943.gif)

But I'm just jealous you can keep working...



I know, right. Still working out the details.
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post Jan 14 2015, 02:48 PM
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We are still plugging away. Still lining up the final paint. It looks like the weather will be nice enough this weekend to spray the 2k primer. Then back to block sanding.

Pulled the rear window out. A PO had glued it in. Got the two small dings in the door removed by a paintless dent repair guy. He did a great job. All of the glass, rubber, trim, etc., is off the car. So we are ready for final prep.

Still hoping to take her to the Hershey Spring Fling - http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showtopic=248115
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post Jan 25 2015, 08:37 PM
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We got the 2k primer on the car last weekend. I just let it sit this past week to make sure it fully cured. I started long blocking the hood out today. It looks great. I'll move on to the doors, quarters, and trunk lid this week.
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post Jan 27 2015, 12:23 PM
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I got the rear trunk lid block sanded out. It looks pretty good. Come to think of it, I think long block sanding was the step I skipped when I did my 912 in the early 90s. I didn't know any better. And there was no internet. It really makes a difference. I am happy with how it is coming out so far.
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post Jan 27 2015, 02:07 PM
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Keep cranking!

We need to see some pics though!!!
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post Jan 31 2015, 06:48 PM
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I spent the afternoon block sanding. It is getting close to ready for the paint booth. I'll post some pictures soon.
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post Feb 8 2015, 10:55 AM
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It's ready for paint. Primed, block sanded, primed, sanded. A lot of work. But it looks great. I will post some pictures later.

PS: I'm tempted to paint it tangerine. But we'll stick to the original silver.
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post Feb 8 2015, 06:33 PM
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Some pictures.


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post Feb 27 2015, 03:09 PM
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We delivered her to the painter today. Now we just wait (and order parts). We are having the Pedrinis painted and the plaid seats done in the next couple of weeks.


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post Mar 2 2015, 12:01 PM
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I stopped in to check on the painter today. With all the salt/mag on the roads (whihc creates clouds of corrosive stuff in the air) he washed the car yesterday to get it ready to start today. Sounds like a good idea.

But, since the car has no rubber, glass, etc. there was a 1/2 to 1" of water in the back of the front floor pans, and 1 1/2 to 2" inches in the rear trunk. Been sitting there since yesterday afternoon. I about had a kanipchen fit. I got it all sprayed and dried out. Then I got to thinking - back in the day we wet sanded the cars to death before painting them. I am sure we got water in them.

It isn't ideal. But, normal? Anything I should do special to get it more dried out? Or am I just being unnecessarily obsessive? The car has original pans, and original rear trunk pan.
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post Mar 2 2015, 01:12 PM
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Just dried out should be fine. I'd be a little worried in the center tunnel & make sure that was all dried out. I would have been pissed to find standing water in my car to. Unless he literally did it a few minutes before you arrived (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) . If it sat for a day I would lay into him some (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) . Are you spraying the inside (floorpans/firewall)? How about the trunks?
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post Mar 2 2015, 01:12 PM
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I would have been beyond irate!!! What did he say?
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post Mar 2 2015, 02:15 PM
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Just dried out should be fine. I'd be a little worried in the center tunnel & make sure that was all dried out. I would have been pissed to find standing water in my car to. Unless he literally did it a few minutes before you arrived (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) . If it sat for a day I would lay into him some (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) . Are you spraying the inside (floorpans/firewall)? How about the trunks?



None in the center tunnel. Just about 1/2 to 1" in the back of the front pan (right in front of the brace running from side to side in the center of the floor), and about 2" in the back of the rear trunk. Ugg. I'm not spraying pans or trunks right now. We'll come back to those. I think he got the message. My wife was actually more pissed than me, which is cool. When I told her she said - "We just spent all this time making sure it was rust-free, and he did what?"
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post Mar 2 2015, 02:37 PM
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Nice project and plan, Steve. Can't wait to see all of the red pop with the silver.

BTW, on another note, has the first issue been published of "Fourteener?"
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post Mar 2 2015, 02:40 PM
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Nice project and plan, Steve. Can't wait to see all of the red pop with the silver.

BTW, on another note, has the first issue been published of "Fourteener?"



We are working on it now. I had something come up that pushed all of my projects behind about 2 weeks. And we want to get this first issue right. The website will be up this week, and the magazine out in a couple weeks. We will email everyone when it is ready to launch.
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post Mar 2 2015, 02:42 PM
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I need another Porsche magazine, I only get Panorama, Excellence, and the local OC region PCA magazine…..!
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