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After the car was blasted, he reprimed the entire car in Veriprime.
After that,
he took the body off the chassis, powder coated the frame and other parts Everything that was not powder coated
was replaced with new parts.
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Years earlier, my Dad acquired the original acrylic lacquer paint for the
car. Cay Coral for the body, Arctic White for the roof, and Dark Coral for the dash and interior trim. At that
time you could still get acrylic lacquer, but that was about to change. It took help from a good friend to acquire
the dash color.
He painted the firewall and the parts of the
car that were forward of the door locking posts, before he and a friend put the body back on the chassis. |
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In the meantime, he hired somebody to paint the car. The person first
painted the fenders, the trunk, the hood, and doors.
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Unfortunately, that's about when things started to fall apart...
the person hired to paint the car proved to be very unreliable, and it was decided to not retain him to finish the car.
That brought the project to a halt, because finding somebody who would still work with acrylic lacquer was difficult because
of EPA regulations. Even more tragic, my Dad's health was starting
to slip, and he developed physical problems which zapped him of his strength, balance, and even much of his sense of touch.
Sadly, also at this time his wife developed cancer and died. The energy and motivation to get up and work on
the old car was just about gone. The car remained untouched from late 2003 to early 2009, when I decided that something
had to be done for both my dad and his 30 year old dream of restoring this coral classic.
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