The time has stood still since I visited the shop in July, the summer holiday are some serious stuff in Portugal, no less than a month or maybe more, is a proper vacation..
There are still some small things that needed some attention, these are at the very end of the very long list, and for what I know, there can only be a handfull left..?
Two weeks ago I received the first pictures of the car in the final color, and it looked just as I wanted it...
I have a short list of things that I´m in charge of, two of those are oilhoses and a complete exhaust system...
This saturday I received the pictures that I have waited and hoped for since I shipped the car one year ago..
This morning (very early) I received first photos of the car in the paint-boot, with the first coat of Tevere Verde Metalizzato on...
When restoring a car from A to Z you need to work on several things at the same time, just to keep the flow going, if you´re not, you will reach a dead-end sometime sooner, and the waiting time to get the parts ready, can be quite long and the whole process stops...
The procedure getting the car ready for the actually paint, are very time consuming and long..
The timeconsuming work of getting the bodywork correct are one thing, when that´s done the even more timeconsuming work of getting that surface ready for the paintshop.
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