Waiting time...

The procedure getting the car ready for the actually paint, are very time consuming and long..

For the untrained eye, it seems like something you could be ready with on a weekend, but the truth are far more off.

When the bodywork are done and all doors and bonnets has been fitted and the gaps are within tolerance, then the metalworker hands the car over to the guys who do the first prep or re-prep for the paintshop to take over.

It includes countless of hours, applying thin layers of filler, sanding it down to reweal small imperfections in the bodywork and have it all flushed and straight.

This works continues in different steps, until every curve, every line, every bodypanel fits into the the next, still with as less as possible of filler to replicate what was done in 1964, when the car was painted from the factory.

When all this job is done, the last step are a 3 stage sanding starting with a partial grit 80, then 220 and last 400 before everything are wet sanded with grit 800, not before it´s all done and flawless, the car will be handed over to the paintshop.

And they will check it all over and if nescecary do the final adjustments before starting to apply coats of paint.

The inside of the front and rear bonnet including the doors are applied with the same underbody stonechip paint as the enginecompartment, a kind of noise reduction from that time.

Writing this blog-post we are in the last week of June, and according to the last time-schedule the paintwork are set to be done and ready in June, before the hollidays starts in July, where most buisnesses are closed for the whole month.

When they return, the paint has cured and the assembly can get started, and with 90% of the parts ready at this stage, it will take a month.

The entire interiore are also done in August, so if everything goes as planned, I would say that the car are done and ready for the shakedown sometime in September..