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Bella the Convertible's New Look
Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 9:03 pm
by ASL642
After 2 months of very hard work by Jon my convertible has at last had the bare metal respray we promised her when we bought her. She's now in Clipper Blue with a navy hood, ready for our Daughter's wedding next weekend!
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Re: Bella the Convertible's New Look
Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 9:15 pm
by MColes
Re: Bella the Convertible's New Look
Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 10:32 pm
by carlosramalho
Dears Friends,
Congratulations for the Daugther wedding, and for the restauration of your moggie!!
I wish to you both and for you Daugther and husband all the best!!
Cheers
Carlos
Re: Bella the Convertible's New Look
Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 12:04 am
by Ondergard
Blimey! And there was me feeling pleased with myself!
Re: Bella the Convertible's New Look
Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 12:18 am
by ASL642
So you should BetsyBlue looks transformed at the front. It's amazing what a bit of tidying up can do.
Bella's paint was terrible. The previous owner had just sprayed the blue on top of chips and dents without any rubbing down at all. As we couldn't match the paint we had no choice but to go back to bare metal as the paint could have been 2pack and we spray in celly.
Re: Bella the Convertible's New Look
Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 12:19 am
by kjm
Bella looks great , good luck with the wedding , the weather should be good for the weekend.

Re: Bella the Convertible's New Look
Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 10:34 pm
by santadawes
Hi Lou.& John.
I am sorry I don't like the look. I think the greenhouse look don't do it for me.
Or have I got it totally wrong. Is it like the pope mobiel visability all around....
Ok great looking car.

Re: Bella the Convertible's New Look
Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 6:49 am
by RogerRust
All the best for the wedding - looks like being a nice day.
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Re: Bella the Convertible's New Look
Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 11:10 am
by chickenjohn
Fantastic Job! I know how much hard work it is to do a full bare metal re-spray as I did the same on my convertible!
Well done for getting such a great finish. Just goes to show that you can get a great finish at home with cellulose paint and that it is far better not to make any short cuts and do the job properly the first time.
Bare metal, remove any rust, etch prime, fill any imperfections, prime (a few times), flat, stop, flat, prime again a few times, flat again to de-nib and finally the top coats. The let dry, wet sand, machine polish, glaze and wax!
Re: Bella the Convertible's New Look
Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 4:52 pm
by bpr81a
chickenjohn wrote: wet sand, machine polish, glaze and wax!
I haven't done that bit yet! Ran out of time.
Re: Bella the Convertible's New Look
Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 5:20 pm
by pjh56
You can come and do mine next Jon, that's after you've recovered from the wedding (hic!)
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Re: Bella the Convertible's New Look
Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 6:57 am
by RogerRust
Any photos of the wedding.
Go on you know you want to

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Re: Bella the Convertible's New Look
Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 3:52 pm
by Kevin
They are probably still recovering.
Re: Bella the Convertible's New Look
Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 6:32 pm
by MarkyB
Is that a euphemism?

Re: Bella the Convertible's New Look
Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 11:14 pm
by bpr81a
About to leave for the Church
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The Happy Couple
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Arriving at the reception
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The most important guests
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Traditional Morris wedding photo
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Re: Bella the Convertible's New Look
Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 12:13 am
by carlosramalho
Amazing
