Thread: The progress on Masami while I work on her at school.

Painted the reinforcements/bumper anchors last night. Got tired of looking at them being sandblasted.... epoxy base with a silver top coat

Edit: moar pichurs! Got short strand filler done on passenger fender and laid regular filler on. Also played with the buffer a little. Didn't really try too hard though.








Edit: Body filler is done, on to glazing putty



Edit: Glaze is half way sanded. Fender is almost done


edit: Anodized red

Finished sanding the glaze on the passenger fender Monday. Also the parts came back from primer-surfacer. Will get pics of primed parts during welding. Just have to wetsand those for paint and good go to. Also accented the plates behind mirrors... well one so far anyway. Still gotta do the other.
Oh also played with the buffer some more

Freaky...looking at the polished rim pic. is like walking outside and looking at my rim, including the dent in teh lip....well...minus the polish...LOL

Originally Posted by Chris BadAss

Freaky...looking at the polished rim pic. is like walking outside and looking at my rim, including the dent in teh lip....well...minus the polish...LOL

Ha! That's funny

Finally got pics of the parts that came back from primer:














All that's left to wetsand is the decklid and spoiler

Wetsand goo lmao


Got the lower half of the lower half of the fender patch basically finished fabricated. Old lower fender was rusted to ****...




Will start welding fender together tomorrow

The **** is a Masami?

Masami is the japanese name for elegant beauty.... thought it would be an ironic name for an ugly american car

I was always wondering why the hell you called it that but always passed over it lol.

Originally Posted by REDCOMPG

I was always wondering why the hell you called it that but always passed over it lol.

Lol yea I liked it. I was gonna give it a Japanese name for irony's sake anyway.... I thought to myself, why not make it more ironic

You need new tires on that thing.

Originally Posted by Fivefingerdeathpunch

You need new tires on that thing.

Soon as she's done she's getting new tires new brakes and an oil change. Also a car wash before I roll her out which is gonna happen when I put the new windshield in anyway

Looking much better!

Originally Posted by Nates94

Looking much better!

I'm pretty impressed with myself on this. I never dreamed that car would ever be straight again. there's a lot i'm not repairing but i'm doing most of the bad stuff right now and i'll do the rest later.

Started the first half of the patch today. Will hopefully have it done Monday.

Originally Posted by Max Cook

cant you just buy new fenders and things?

Well the black one I pulled from ewe-pullet which is our local self service yard and it was the only driver side fender that had the flare mounting holes in it. The white parts came off another one that would have worked had the driver fender not already been taken... I'd order a new one from gm but I don't have 150 for a new driver side fender nor 67 for a new passenger side fender...

I'm taking the cheapest route I can right now. If I had the money I'd just scrap it and buy a new one..... buttttt I don't so this is currently my only choice

Originally Posted by Max Cook

fair enough. I mean theres a certain charm to the whole thing restoring all this **** most people would just chuck away. Just seems like a lot of work lol.

Lol it is