Trying to get a readable pic up...
starting out the resto
paint
ready for clear
We have stripes!
Engine compartment
Paint and body complete
pictures look good and great color!
I've always loved that color as well..... :) very nice. but your trim tag seems to have several layers of paint on it.. :)
Taking a rag with some lacquer thinner on it and using it on the tag can help removed some of that paint.
Just be careful - don't spill any on that new paint job.
Yes, I wasn't aware how really bad that tag was until I tried to get a picture of it that I could read. And yes, I am a bit nervous about spilling anything on the new paint while trying to recover the tag info. Thanks for the positive comments!
Looking back, I realize that burgundy/white was "born" into me... My first ten-speed, a Schwinn Super-Sport I bought with paper route money, was burgundy with white handlebar tape. I re-wrapped that tape every couple of months because it got dirty so fast.
Very nice paint work. Did you get any paperwork with your car when you bought it?
You may be able to carefully slide pieces of aluminum foil behind the tag and shape it into a small box shape with ledges to shield the paint around it and use a remover to clean it. That's how I did mine after I realized I had too much primer on the tag and I didn't want to destroy the primer already surrounding it. I held the rivets with a finger and carefully lifted the tag around the edges while working the foil in place.
Mike
I recently cleaned heavy paint accumulations off the cowl tag and the VIN plate of the '56 Nomad I purchased last year. The paint was similar to yours, so thick it was difficult to read the stamped characters. I first masked around the plates as carefully as I could with good 3M masking tape, then added a second layer and taped a few inches from the plates. I tried several milder solvents (mineral spirits, xylene, etc), but nothing worked very well until I used lacquer thinner. I folded shop towels up to get several thicknesses in a small area, then soaked that in the lacquer thinner (not dripping wet, but 'wet')... I had to replace the shop towels several times repeating the process until I had all/most of the paint off the plates. After removing the masking materials, I used compounds to clean the plates and the surrounding areas.
In your case, if you end up cleaning all the paint from the cowl tag, you could probably lightly spray 'firewall black' over it to simulate the factory application...
To Bullitt; I got the original window sticker which is now so faded it's practically unreadable. But I had reproductions made that I can display without fearing damage to the original. I was 19 when I found it in 1977 and was very, very lucky that it turns out to be almost all there. It had/has headers so I don't have the exhaust manifolds. I put a Lakewood bellhousing on it when I replaced the clutch, but I have the aluminum bellhousing. I have an electronic distributor in it now, but I have the original. Of course I don't have the battery, and the original shocks are also long gone.
Thanks for the tips on cleaning off the trim tag, I really want mine to look better than it does now!
VIN tag
Finally got a picture of my axle (code)
Axle is home, next is interior