Paint time!

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

Woo woo! This coming Friday the 1970 Hornet goes for body cleanup
and paint! I finally got paid for a consulting gig last year
and finally got paid.

I intend to paint it the original 1970 white, and a neutral
gray from the beltline crease up. I've got the original paint
code (P72A Frost White, Ditzler/Dupont) and part numbers from
amxfiles.com (thanks!).

I gotta pick a neutral gray probably on Friday. I've got a
few candidates, Audi/VW and GM. There aren't many automotive
non-metallic grays out there.

Remaining will be:

* Wheels prepped and painted gray (factory 14" steel).
* repair headlight doors, figure out how to make them look
  like clear anodized aluminum.
* fabricate clear LED tailight lenses and electronics

Plus other trivia. The bumpers need chroming, typical crap
early 70's chrome job, but unlikely I'll have the money for
that this year.

I can't believe I'm going to have a car ready BEFORE car
season! It's a first for me.


(I'm going to Germany for two weeks on Saturday, I'm shepherding
a decade-old robot I helped revive, it's appearing in a gallery
in Berlin. Probably not a good time of year, weather-wise,
to go there but no way I'm passing up the free trip!)

http://www.ace.uci.edu/penny/works/petitmal/petitcode.html
http://www.transmediale.de/page/exhibition/exhibition.0.3.3.html