Re: [Amc-list] amx cowl painting tips

[wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Yep, sure did. The area was often full of runs and errors if you looked close too.
There were often heavy layers of paint and drip edges down in the cowl.

What I have done is to spray the cowl separate first. Being careful to get the best coverage down in the bottom.
Then sand and clean up any areas up top.

 Depending on the car and whether I cared or not, I would either respray the top of the cowl with the rest of the car letting the overspray go down in or mask it off. If your only painting that one area you can get half decent coverage down in the, perfection is probably not going to happen!  If it's a restoration, a perfect coat of paint down there is wrong anyway.

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Mark Price
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2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrac II
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From: "bikerfox" <bikerfox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> I talked with Larry Mitchell today and he said that AMC used (people) 
> painters to simply paint over the cowl louvered areas up and down and across 
> and that there were shadow areas underneath the louvers where there wasn't 
> any paint at all.  Any other ideas?
> 
> Steve
> 
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> From: "Matt Haas" <mhaas@xxxxxxx>
> To: <bikerfox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "AMC/Rambler owners, drivers and fans." 
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> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 4:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [Amc-list] amx cowl painting tips
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> 
> > You can do it the way AMC did and not worry about prepping it. I've seen 
> > the paint in that area come off in sheets on several cars. Whatever you 
> > do, you're going to be limited since there isn't good access to most of 
> > it.
> >
> > Matt
> >
> > On 1/15/2009 10:10 AM, Steve spouted this sage advice:
> >> Hi Peeps,
> >>  I'm repainting a '68 AMX and my painter's concerned about painting the 
> >> inside of the cowl area.  How should it be properly prepared and painted? 
> >> Is the paint used in that area the same as the exterior paint?  Any help 
> >> would be appreciated.
> >>  Thanks, Steve
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