[Pinballer]

After putting in my usual 46 hours at NAPA, a mighty busy weekend was spent on the car here, luckily the weather stayed good throughout which sure helped. Arms are now sore as all get out.

Finished painting the roof on try #2, didn't like try #1 at all, so that wasted most of Saturday evening and Sunday morning. Gun dripped a couple times while holding it horizontal and it had overspray patterns running through everything. Turned up the wick on the gun on try #2 just a little more and the paint laid down a lot better.
I'm not a painter by any means, but I sure like doing it. The immediate visual changes once it's done right are very rewarding. Wouldn't want to do it for anybody else or for a living, but I can stand my own work just fine.

Once the roof was reshot to my satisfaction and appeared to be turning out good, I rolled the car into the sun so it could dry and turned my attention to the next area to renew--the worst one of all--the driver door. This had a large and long deep dent in it which you can easily see in most of the pictures on previous posts and also had several door dings across the middle. There's also some screw holes down low from the Spirit GT trim that came off and those needed to be filled.

Door came off with minimal trouble, thank goodness for Gear Wrenches to get the almost inaccessable inner hinge bolts loose quickly, and it went onto the cart for bodywork. After removing the inner door panel and pushing that big old gouge back out to where it was close to flush again, then there was lots of sanding on the dents first, and then the filler, both with machine and by hand. Aah, you guys know what it's like... pretty dirty work. I looked like George Washington in one of those colonial powered wigs when I finally came in the house to clean up.
Once this driver door is done, I think I can do the passenger door while still attached to the car, there's only a few minor dings on it and the trim holes along the bottom to ping in and fill. Should be on that door by the 4th of July I hope. That would leave only the window trim blackout on the windshield and rear hatch and the paint will be all done. My goal when I started to paint was to be done by the 1st of July before the super hot weather hit town, so I'll be close.