Secret experimental 1964 GX 455

[TrunkMonkey]

Bill.

Are you sure that's the shade of red you were hoping for?

 

[yachtsmanbill]

For the SW air cleaner across the hall??  Thats "patina" LOL...  Bill

[TrunkMonkey]

Patina? I think I dated her sister in high school.  What a barn find she was!

[yachtsmanbill]

Corn Fed USDA prime right?   ws

[TrunkMonkey]

...free milk and a cow.

[Aussie Skylark]

Copy Bill, Winter is on the way here. With that said I live in Queensland (Sunshine state) I'm about 1 hours drive West of Brisbane ( East Coast) and 2296 feet above sea level. We get mild frost no snow, walk in the park really. I couldn't imagine what its like to live in the snow like you guys, and have to hibernate your cars each year.
Stay safe Men
Marcus

[yachtsmanbill]

Didnt they used to say "why buy the cow when the milk is free"?    Bill

[yachtsmanbill]

Copy Bill, Winter is on the way here. With that said I live in Queensland (Sunshine state) I'm about 1 hours drive West of Brisbane ( East Coast) and 2296 feet above sea level. We get mild frost no snow, walk in the park really. I couldn't imagine what its like to live in the snow like you guys, and have to hibernate your cars each year.
Stay safe Men
Marcus

How about deep sea fishing in the Bass Straight in another month? Brrrr.  Bill

[yachtsmanbill]

Looks loverly gubnah! About 30* south Lat.? Up around Dalby? Kinda like Florida here.  Bill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane

[yachtsmanbill]

Well I sure hope everyone is in their comfort zone. We're doing OK, with plenty of food and booze, and, uh, wet sandpaper LOL. Gonna hafta take it up a notch for entertainment. Ill do a video now and then. I was in the shop and asked google to play some Debbie Harry (Blondie). They whipped up a german radio station interview with her talking about her music career. It was nice to not hear Corona mentioned even once.

So heres a tour of the fortress of solitude and some pics. So get somethin' done on them rustbuckets! US mail and UPS is still making deliveries!   Bill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTcLtF_JUTE

[option B9]

  Looking good Bill,  Keep up the good work and get that filter in the furnace and warm the place up and keep going.    Tony

[yachtsmanbill]

Ive been using the el cheapo filters and they actually catch a lot of trash, especially the blue dust from the base coat job. Those, I take outside and can blow them out with air. I also used the 10.00 HEPA filters which catch all the spray stuff. One day and they are gonners. Even the furnace starves for purge air and wont light-off! the last one I used when clearcoating and looked like new, but was plugged solid with the CC. So now all the spraying is done so I can resume with the cheap ones.

Put that used one back in for the wet sanding and alls well. Back at it today. So far its 12 hours into the hood, front fender, and pass. door. Now I really see where those $10,000 paint jobs add up!  Bill

[yachtsmanbill]

WOW! I thought everyone was on telecommunications lockdown. This place was D.O.A.  for the last few days, then BAMM! Hope everyone's doing OK. I just heard there was some kinda bug going around or something; I dont ever listen to news out in the shop; only music. It calms the savage beast ya know... Something about Corona beer being bad and giving everyone the runs?? Dont drink the water in Mexico. LOL...

So I'm still in the shop every day and finally had a revelation. Either I pay somebody to do this job, or its gonna do it itself. Hmm. A conundrum. I guess Ill have to be the switch hitter here. So far Ive worn the digits down to the first knuckle. When the fingernails fell off, it kinda hurt, but once I was past them, its all good.

Like Billy Preston sang, "Willy go round in circles", its where I'm at. I ordered a 2 quart kit from 3M of the compound and polish, and a pair of foam pads for buffing.
So far its been cutting with 220, 320, 400, 600, 800, 1200, and finally 1500. Now that the hard parts done, tomorrow is gonna be a final with 2000, and thats where I call it quits.  Thats a lotta circles. One good thing is its' loosened up the bad shoulders and elbows that have been killing me for the last 20 years. The shiny stuff is just de-waxer...

Stay well my friends and drink DOS XX's...   Bill

[Aussie Skylark]

Looks loverly gubnah! About 30* south Lat.? Up around Dalby? Kinda like Florida here.  Bill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane

Hi Bill, Very close with Dalby. I live in Highfields, on the outskirts of Toowoomba.

[yachtsmanbill]

Know it like the back o' me hand. Krikey! Not really but always wanted to go... My grand dad owned a LARGE Caterpillar dealership (like 12 branches) and had a young lad named Bruce (forgot the surname) fly up to Chicago on a buying spree. He stayed at my moms house. Their ranch was like 5 or 50 million acres (?)... they each owned their own planes to fly into town for groceries. He wrote a cheque for like a half dozen bulldozers and a few excavators. And we bitch about shipping a fender???    I wished I remembered more. I was 18 at the time.    Bill