Feeler: My 84 Wabbit..

[R.O.R-2.0]

Thanks man,  will look into it once the paint seals up, the grill and seals come in and I can find a bit of time.  Probably need to swing your way on my way down south some weekend and compare cars.  This is all the farther we got last night and today I worked on building the 10 by 20 temporary spray booth.  Got the bugger up and mostly wrapped with plastic then needed to go for dinner.


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Never painted in 95 degrees and low humidity before.  Paint almost dried before it hit the car.  Way to weird.

prolly gonna have some orange peel then.. gotta spray it WET and CLOSE.

[ORCoaster]

No orange peel and we even have reducer for the 75-80 degree range.  The gun my son has is flat out awesome.  I would never have tried painting so close to the work but the gun is design for being 4 inches away and putting out an 8 inch pattern.  With the overlap of 50 -60% we got the two colors on right before we lost most of the good light of the day.  Somewhere about 630 PM.

Tomorrow the clearcoat and then I get to put it all back together again. 

[trav1856]

man I'd so be all over that if I was closer.

[R.O.R-2.0]

nobody wanted it when i was about to sell it.. now i wouldnt sell the car if someone came up to me with a fat pile of cash..

well, they might get the car, but not the engine.

i couldnt even get $2500 out of it!!!

so, im keeping it. 

[jaysen71581]

If you were on the east coast that car would have been mine...

[R.O.R-2.0]

yes, but im on the WEST coast. the left coast is where its at baby

[ORCoaster]

I second that!  Has everything to do with open spaces, no bodies, and great accessible places.  So we have some rain, get a good jacket and go for a walk in it. 

[maxfax]

I think we got your rain over here this fall, you can have it back anytime!!  We'll take your less rusty bodies in trade..

[ORCoaster]

Crazy how this "Global Warming" opps I mean Climate Change thing is working. 

And crazy to is how we can have 60 -120 inches of rain a year and still have those less than rusted bodies.  That my friend is all about the salt.  Only the cars that are right on the edge of the ocean and exposed to that spray seem to have that trouble here.  Once away say even a half a mile the water is not as corrosive and all is good.  The paint may wash off before the body starts rusting away.  That happens a lot with the CC/BC type of paints that are in use today.

I lived in the Detroit area and Upper MI for a good part of my knucke busting life and i must say working on cars here is a treat compared to some 3 year old MI one.

[R.O.R-2.0]

Crazy how this "Global Warming" opps I mean Climate Change thing is working. 

And crazy to is how we can have 60 -120 inches of rain a year and still have those less than rusted bodies.  That my friend is all about the salt.  Only the cars that are right on the edge of the ocean and exposed to that spray seem to have that trouble here.  Once away say even a half a mile the water is not as corrosive and all is good.  The paint may wash off before the body starts rusting away.  That happens a lot with the CC/BC type of paints that are in use today.

I lived in the Detroit area and Upper MI for a good part of my knucke busting life and i must say working on cars here is a treat compared to some 3 year old MI one.

uh, i think your a bit off, on the salt thing..

im 20 miles from the ocean. my cars still rust. the cars i have with no rust, did NOT come from here.. my rabbit was bought brand new in Hillsboro, Oregon, and lived its whole life in that area till i bought it and brought it to the coast..

see, with our cars, the bodies rust away from the outside, in...

with cars in the rust belt, they rust from the inside out.. (ive never seen an engine as disgusting as some of them from over east, or from canada)

seems like the cars on the coast die from a form of electrolysis almost..

[RabbitJockey]

im from pa, and i visited the detroit area this summer for work, i couldn't believe how rusty their cars were, i mean cars that were 5 years old has rust worse than a 20 year old car from pa would have, i didn't see any cars older than 10-15 years either.  must salt the *** out of stuff there to help sell more cars.

[ORCoaster]

A True optimist.  Going to Detroit to find work.  Isn't the entire state on food stamps or something by now?  I was back there a year ago and couldn't believe the lack of businesses.  Houses dirt cheap and no one even trying to look for work.  It is like it disappeared a couple years ago. 

[maxfax]

Trev0rbr, you ought to see some of the stuff we have from northern PA, in particular Clearfield County..  WOW stuff from there makes the New York stuff look good...