Hot Rod Reverend
Aug 30, 20182 min
Updated: Dec 13, 2019
This past weekend we finally got back to working on the car to complete all of the finishing touches. While there was still quite a bit to do on the Fairlane, I still could not get past looking at the roof each time I walked up to the car, opened one of the doors, etc. The finish of the clear coat looked great... from 5 feet away or more. It seems that I just had a difficult time trying to get all of the imperfections out of the surface. After all, I had sprayed the final coat while the car was in the open air in the driveway. The bugs had a wonderful time that afternoon competing in an Olympic swim meet in the pool of fresh Tamco 2100 urethane clear coat. I was never satisfied with the surface even though I tried several times to level the finish with different grades of sandpaper and a buffer. So, this past Saturday I prepped the roof, masked the car, and sprayed away. For this work I took quite a bit of video and included some captions.
I don't know what takes more time, sanding the car or masking everything off!
One thing that did help on this respray was to tape up my sleeves/gloves so that sweat drops would not get into the finish (had that happen last time too and it was not a pretty picture).
The videos tell the rest of the story...
While the surface looked the best it had ever been I still was not happy with the finish. I wanted to take it to another level so I went to the local auto parts store and bought a twisted wool buff pad so that I could get as serious as possible. What a difference!