my `76 GOLF 3dr

[Jarred]

an todays update, (the brakes were done before chrissy actually!)

finally a garage to work in!



yay for primerage:




and the monkey that helped me do it.


Ill wet sand it tomorrow, and respray the few spots that need a touch up, and then hopefully, fingers crossed, colour on friday!!! clear coat will have to wait a while maybe, as i've work on monday at the tennis

[joshyd-mk2gti]

sweet. what colour you painting it? looks like the drivers door has dropped a couple mm, are you going to raise it?

you work for rowlands..????

[Jarred]

you work for rowlands..????

huh?

I'll be sticking with the original wattle yellow, just so i dont have to repsray everything. If i was goign to change colour I would get candy apple green on joachims mk 1, but I dont' have the time, tools, space or money to do a full respray. I'll do it one day, if i keep my car for a long time.

joachims mk 1:

It just happens to be my fav mk 1 I've ever seen.

[joshyd-mk2gti]

damn you make painting a car look easy.

huh?

i take that as a no. youd know what i mean if you did work for em..

[Jarred]

spose that makes sense then.

I don't know about making it look easy. It's a fair bit of work, but I'm rushing is a bit, as dad's been away for 2 weeks, which meant I could have the garage to paint and work on it, but he's coming home tomorrow.. o oh..

The concept is simple, but practice makes perfect and what not. I need to vaccum the garage now tho, cause it's REALLY dusty.. oh well
Mind you this wont come out perfect, but it's my first paint job and car (modified) for that matter, so I'm still proud as punch. Unless it turns out real crap. then i wont be so happy.

[Jarred]

wet sanded the bonnet before, and sanded down the whole car with 320 grit. still have to wetsand with 600 before colour, but before that I have to fix the door and a few other minor things

the bonnet:


I'm not that happy with how it turned after after the wetsand, so i might do it again, it did get rid of a few bubbles and stuff that was there tho

who can geuss the secret mod in this pic??? (josh you're not allowed to say n: )


oooooh. camber

[Preen59]

Looking smooth dude. Very nice. I can't wait to see the paint on it..

[Valver.]

who can geuss the secret mod in this pic???

You've de-seemed the rear panel Looking very nice It's never easy to paint at home with all the dust so credit to you, as I know what it's like!!!

[GoLfMan]

sweet. what colour you painting it? looks like the drivers door has dropped a couple mm, are you going to raise it?

you work for rowlands..????

hate to aswer for Jarred here, but seeing as im there more often than not....

yup the doors being raised, few more spots need to be hit with high fill by this ugly "monkey", then we can paint it by the looks of things its going to come out nice!

then its onto my car so we can get them both ready for Nats!

[99gti]

I think your both crazy ass nut jobs - but I like the looks of this. Keep it up lads!