Thanks for the kind words. Just don’t stop with improving the car.
I know it sounds crazy, but if you get the body work done and get paint on it, you will be super motivated.
The paint on my car is a Maaco base clear job. Now I’m not saying all Maaco shops are the same cause they are not.
The owner of the shop I went to asked me if they could use my car as fill in work. I said as long as it’s never outside, that’s fine.
They used PPG primers and sealers. They had this one guy there who just loved working on old stuff and it was amazing to watch him as he blocked my car. You would have thought it was his car. They used PPG Omni Plus base and clear. The comments I get at cruise nights are mostly guys raving about the paint.
I paid $3,300 for bodywork and paint after I did all the metal work myself.
Now my car has not seen rain since it has been mine and I keep it covered inside the garage most of the time. It’s been close to four years and the paint still looks great.
I have had guys on this form tell me I had to spend $15,000 minim to get decent paint work. They were high on paint fumes.
Keep at it!
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DD, sorry to hear about your father. I'm sure he's smiling from "up above' at the way your Duster looks! You should be proud too. Stay strong.My dad passed on early this past week and my son Aaron came on a nice drive in the Duster with me so I could reflect on my childhood years with my dad.
We put about 200 miles on the car, and she drives and performs so wonderfully, she far surpasses anything I had thought she would be!
We began early in the morning, headed to Totowa, NJ where we lived when I was born. Then we headed up Rt23 to Oak Ridge, NJ where we lived until the end of Middle School. After that on to Stillwater, NJ were we spent my high school years, during this time I bought my first car, A 69 Barracuda.
Stillwater is in the country, a great place to grow up and tear around with your car, little towns around to cruise the main drag in your hot rod.
My dad was a carpenter by trade and thought me to master that trade, but he also taught me to stay with things and don’t quit.
Thanks dad for showing me staying with something even if it takes 8 years will be satisfying in the long run.
I snapped a photo just up the road from my home in high school. My dad would be proud of this accomplishment...
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