I've been watching Keith fart around with sand paper for a solid week now... Worse than watching paint dry... But today, he's shooting color so I'll get to do a little of that as well. The idea for paint is a simple one. The car will be Indian Red with a black firewall, door jams, etc... Going after a look that feels as if some schmuck in 1948 decided to paint his car red, but didn't bother jamming it or anything... Gonna be titts!
Is anybody just amazed at how fast this went to color or is it just me? Ryan: "Hey...how about we build our own spraybooth and paint a car?" Keith: "Okay...Waddya want to do after lunch then?"
I'm posting these images in real time. Meaning, this car was in primer this morning after a solid 5 days of blocking.... All of the color was shot today. Took only a gallon of black and a gallon of red... Our goal is a solid hot rod paint job... not some plastic show bullshit...
And that's pretty much how Keith works. Essentially, he storms around the shop all grumpy and without saying a word to anyone. Dude just flat out fucking works every minute of every day. The other day a buddy and I were out in the shop checking out the progress while Keith was eating lunch with my god daughter. After about 5 minutes, Keith came in and got straight to work... didn't even bother to stop for a second to bullshit with us. Walked in, said "hi," threw on his welding helmet, and got to work. It's pretty fun to watch.
Done with clear about 2 minutes ago... A couple of minor runs to fix, but other than that it's pretty damn good.
There's plenty left, so not a full gallon... I've never watched anyone paint a car... I was surprised it didn't take multiple gallons!
was Keith happy with the overall quality of the brookville body, fit finish, etc....? how much stuff needed to be blocked out? i have only done a couple brookville 32's and they were pretty nice.
Try to explain the theory behind the paint job on this to someone who just doesn't get it.....like a body shop professional at a dealership. Impossible!
i had that problem when i suggested it to a customer, he flat out thought it was not right. i had this whole story of how the car got to where it was today, including a different color trunk lid and door [swopped out when it was hot rodded] with different colors and different pinstripe showing through.
The real idea behind this paint job is that as it ages, it just gets better and better. In a sense, Keith is setting the car up to one day have a really great patina... As it stands now, it's just a clean simple paint job.
I didn't get to spend as much time in the shop today as I would have liked, but Keith was busy none the less. As has been said all along, the heart of this project is really the monster Flathead. Keith built the bottom end a couple of years ago in preparation for Bonneville. Today, he put together the valve train, cleaned up the cast parts, and got most of it bolted together. It's a jewel... and while it looks pretty damned special on the outside, this isn't a "shallow" piece. Meaning, this thing makes some serious power.
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