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My Last Drag Racer Suits Up!
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12-02-2015, 02:08 PM
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Re: My Last Drag Racer Suits Up!
Now that the Jr racing season has ended, it's time to start prepping for next year. I have Benjamin's Jr all torn down, but Danny's body needed to be painted. Unfortunately, Danny's car came loose on the way home from E-Town back in Sept, so I had to repair the nose from the underside with fiberglass and then cut the top side and fill with epoxy. Finished it off with a little body filler. This extra work consumed the best painting weather, but it had to be done.
I was really hesitant to lay PPG paint over the primer coat on the body since I didn't know what type of primer it was. So, we sanded it off - being careful not to break into the gel coat. We sanded the inside too....
For the primer coat, we took Danny along to teach him how to shoot paint - he did pretty good. I showed him the motion, and then let him run with it...
It's never 'all work and no play' when we go to the shop, what 8 year old doesn't like jumping in a pile of leaves!!
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