My 71 Maverick Grabber Build.....

Wow!! I was needing my Saturday afternoon fix from your work, but the damn internet has been down since around 5, so I had to veiw it on my phone, and after a few beers it's hard to see anything on this little screen...

 

Moved the car out this morning and got the shop cleaned(took a couple pic's of the car while it was out in the open)..... Then I got down the trunk lid, spoiler and rear valence panel..... Then I stripped the paint off all of it..... The center section of the rear spoiler has alot of small fractures in it and it has been repaired in the right rear, then sure enough when moving it aroud it broke..... Won't be hard to fix, just another pita.....

Here's a couple of the car outside.....






Here's some while stripping stuff down.....







and here's one of the break in the spoiler.....

 

That third picture down is awesome. It's almost a shame to put fenders or a hood on it. Great work.

 

What brand of stripper do you use?
I also meant to ask you, do you find the DP epoxy primer sticks over POR15? I was looking at the pic's of the A pillars, and I think you sprayed the hinge area with POR 15, due to the rust, but did you top coat it with the DP primer?

 

Great work! Beautiful shade of blue.

 

Thanks.....

Kleen Strip.....

Actually the whole roof(due to pitting in the roof) and the front jambs have POR15 with DP over it..... I think the inportant part in making it stick is not letting the POR15 set for more then a day, then I sanded the POR15 with 150 to rough it up and sprayed the DP over it..... I sat for quite a while after that and when I started doing body work on it the DP feathered nicely into the POR15 with no signs of lifting.....

 

Thanks.....

 

More progress was made today..... Since I have to fix the spoiler anyways I went ahead and cut the lump of hairy glass out that was sticking through the inside from a previous repair, then I started making repairs..... I sanded the trunk on both sides, I doug out all the seam sealer around the outer edge of the underside then wire wheeled the rust that was under it..... After that I prepped it and applied some POR15 to the pitted area..... I sanded and primed the rear valence panel..... I also sanded, primed and filled the inperfections in the rear quater extensions.....

Here's the lump I cut out of the inside of the spoiler, the first part of the repairs where it was broke and a small area that needed material added where it had been snaded away in the past.....






Here's the under side of the trunk lid where I treated it with POR15.....




Here is the rear valence sanded and primed.....





and here are the quater extensions snaded, primed and filled where necessary.....

 

Sunday I worked on the spoiler a little, cleaned up the repair I made on it Sat then reinforced the inner rear area..... I got the rear valence and quater end caps all painted, only porblem is I have a blemish in the left end cap and after the last coat of clear a giant bug belly flopped in the pass side end cap(I picked the bug out and touched it up, I think the pass side sill be ok but we will just have to see)..... Some of the joys of painting without a booth.....

Here's Saturdays repairs on the spoiler cleaned up a little, then the test fit to make sure it still lines up properly alohg the top of the trunk an the last is where I made the inner repairs on the back edge.....







Here's the valence and end caps with sealer, base coat and finally cleared.....

 

Very nice progress!

 

what's up Frank, it's John from tr (79 pace car ). the mav is looking great!

 

Hey John, how's it going..... Yeah, the car is coming along nicely.....

 

Back at it today, got the spoiler primmed - sanded - primmed and filled with a little spot putty..... Trink lid is primmed on the underside, then primmed - sanded and primmed on the top side..... Also sanded the quater end caps wet sanded and ready to repaint.....

Here's the spoiler primme and filled.....






Here's the trunk lid top and bottom.....





and here's the sanded end caps.....

 

Nice!! I was just thinking, it's almost 4...and no update.

 

I was running a little late today, my father was changing the rack&pinion out in his Mustang and I had to help him finish it up.....

Not an easy thing to try and do body work and work on an oily steering part too.....