1968 Valiant - Old school lettering

Jon Connolly · Post by **Jon Connolly** » Fri Apr 11, 08 9:58 pm

It was a bit tired when I got it .... hadn`t had too much in the way of maintenance done. But basically was up and running and needed a good freshen up, body is very straight and all work has been previously done to take a big block.
Don`t know about 11`s ???? .... will have to see

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Fri Apr 11, 08 10:06 pm

Nice to see it painted correctly, good luck with the ageing. One shot is really hard to move once cured. A lot of people have had good results using oven cleaner. I love it!

Proper job

Jon Connolly · Post by **Jon Connolly** » Fri Apr 11, 08 10:31 pm

Jeff .... please correct me if I`m wrong but I was going to do the following tomorrow ( paint will be 24 hrs old ).

1 - Mop down with heavily diluted t. cut, a sponge and plenty of water.
2 - Very carefully rub it down with 1200 grit wet and dry in the direction of the brush strokes ... using plenty of water til I get the look I want.
3 - Rinse down with clean water and leave.

Your paint advice would be appreciated

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Fri Apr 11, 08 11:44 pm

1 shot dries VERY hard, so be careful with that wet and dry, as the base coat on your car is a LOT less resilient. So if you wet n dry it, you might find the base coat going down to the primer, before you get through the 1 shot.

I suggest doing a test panel before you attack the car. As I said, I have been told oven cleaner works well on the enamel 1 shot.

Good luck mate!

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Sat Apr 12, 08 12:06 am

This was a helmet I striped with one shot, its great paint, really easy to use too, some guys are now using it through an airbrush!

Jon Connolly · Post by **Jon Connolly** » Sat Apr 12, 08 12:09 am

Thanks for that

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Sat Apr 12, 08 12:11 am

And this is all paint! No real rust on this!

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Sat Apr 12, 08 12:13 am

You could mask around the lettering to protect car body paint, that would work.

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Sat Apr 12, 08 10:13 am

Looks great, nice to see the interest in the nostalgic style race cars, nice attention to detail getting it aged and all! cool car

Jon Connolly · Post by **Jon Connolly** » Sat Apr 12, 08 12:13 pm

Some Mr Muscle and diluted T.cut and I`ve got the look I was after.

Boz01 · Post by **Boz01** » Sat Apr 12, 08 12:59 pm

Nice work!!!

Speaking of Valiants i am surprised a certain person hasnt commented on this......'oi! kev where are you??'

Stu · Post by **Stu** » Mon Apr 14, 08 7:53 am

Supercool. Good work, fella.

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Mon Apr 14, 08 8:36 am

Looks great! I was thinking you wanted it more aged. I was probably confusing you, sorry. I had this effect in my head,

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Mon Apr 14, 08 9:41 am

Looking good, but isn't that supposed to read "Puyallup"?

Jon Connolly · Post by **Jon Connolly** » Mon Apr 14, 08 9:52 am

Blue ... well spotted

TIPPEX TIME !