66 dart convertible

I took a short break to see my kids and go to the michigan dream cruise so the dart got put on the burner to simmer for a while. Anyway I put the body on the cart and pulled it outside to check for oops that I thought were in there. ya know that "skeeters" LIKE no make that LOVE fresh clear.. I could have shot 40 coats of base color and not one bug. but let me get out the clear and BAM millions of them sucker waiting to kamikaze in to fresh clear. so here I sit sanding the mosquito's legs off and checking for other oops that are in there. It's not to bad but I have a few in the trunk lid and hood areas right where I can see em, but since I'm wet sanding the clear coat down and going to add some gold shimmer pearl and then re-clear it, I'll have 2 coats more than I want on it but I think it'll be ok since I''m leveling the existing 2 clear coats that are on it now

here a pic or 2

back view along the passengers side really doesnt have any mistakes that are major
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got me some legs to sand out on the trunk lid right at the curve, darnit I didn't see then until the clear was dry, plus checking out the fit of the led setup. with the custom harness to activate the inner lights so that they work like the stop tails on the quarters. next I'm going for a smoother look on the led's by going SMT style and smt resistors. but first I have to get a BIG magnifying light because then suckers are SMALL. 4 of them fit inside one of the lumileds that I'm using now. tweezer time for sure.
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just messing around with some trunk dress up stuff
I sort of like the way it might look. hmmm now to find some material.. vinyl , tweed or that felt like stuff? medium brown to dark brown I'd say to offset the vanilla color. or the same as the top of the dash?
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I do like the way the dash is 2 toned. now to save my penny's and get the clusters rechromed
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passengers side front fender has a scratch in it from me not watching what I'M DOING WITH THE AIR HOSE :banghead:
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I finally got an ac box for this dart and am ready to test fit and cut the holes to put the new A/c heater core box in. I am in need of a switch or 2 to finish up the inside conversion it's a mix of 66 A/c box and 73 dart A/c heater core. It "almost" matches the stock 66 A/C heatercore setup , I just have some minor adjustments to do for the a/c clutch cycling issue that I will have due to the mixing of parts.
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side view. Almost ready for the pearl and THEN suspension! can't wait for that.
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drivers side wet sanded to 1000 on most of the body just need to dull the rest of the glossy paint.
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drivers side rear still needs a little more wet sanding to dull the paint and get it ready for the pearl
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Ahhh the hood, just say that I'm going to be wet sanding skeeter legs off for a while. this is where the worst area is of "leg work" that I have to do
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all in all I'm extremely satisfied with the paint job. and glad to be able to get back to work on it.