19?? chrysler sunbeam no 2 (+½ )

three months since the last update and probably only 3 or so days actual car time spent in nearly six months

many other things have distracted me and i have also not really felt motivated - probably due to lack of progress a fairly vicious circle apparently

i have spent the last couple of months studiously avoiding working on the sunbeam as drdick and lard44 can attest to. i have had a monster tidy/reorganisation of my bit of the unit and even brought stuff out of my deep storage facility - found many tools thought lost forever and even some bits of sunbeam leftover from the early 90's



anyways there is now too much organisation and tidiness in the unit so i felt obliged to make some mess



remember this?






told me to do this






add some of this







and then.......


have a long and tedious conversation with the other tenants of the farm about overspray and the implications thereof


so this happened while i found more environmentally friendly things to do






roll forward to 6pm and as everyone else is foxtrot oscar-ing i got prepared to shoot some paint.


then this turns up











now much as i like a nice fiat, i had just mixed up a litre of paint, done a test pattern and was about to go guns blazing.

chap with the 512bbi ended up chatting for 1 1/2 hours with the mechanics about fitted Spammy spam spam spam, no thank you, man. mostly.

i tried to shoo him off politely with talk of overspay but he did not budge.

my final ploy was to bore him with my knowledge of michelin trx tyres as found on his vehicle but even this did not make him leave.

i eventually gave up and just stood in the background looking crossly at the setting sun





after the ferrari left (sounding glorious)


i had to rush some paint on before darkness fell.









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looks ok apart from the horrible runs and a few blobs of water from the gun - hopefully it can be rectified later


i only had time to put a rough coat on the interior of the car which may cause problems later









it looks like i will need to go over this with a scraper and some sandpaper because of the poor prep work but at least its a start


back to bed so loads of dust can settle on the wet paint







i used rustoleum gloss ral 9010 (some sort of white) thinned with approx 20% celly thinners.

its the first time i have used it and the overspray is very sticky/oily and caused havok with my arm hair and has left me looking like a royston vasey coke head








total time spent 403 hours (not including 3 months of solid sweeping and shuffling stuff about - my tool box has never looked so organised )

total spend £3010 (a minty sunbeam trio/Ti with all the good bits sold this week for £3.5k a curse word shell is worth £350 - maths never was my strong subject but even i can see there might be a lesson here )

Holy lack of PPE Batman! I'll rob some masks and disposable overalls from work!

I am thinking of hiring a van next Friday and collecting the stash of accrued parts from work so probably see this in the flesh then!

ps thanks for the positive comment dabhand :-)

hey nofrills - i'm afraid my photobucket account is sucked dry

pics will come back in 2 days when the monthly limit is reset

looks like i have somehow made the last pics clickable - and they still seem to show from inside my p/b album

so if you really can't wait just click on the pics in the last post to view

or go to sunbeam294vol3 for the last 80 odd pics

hey Angyl

funnily enough i have spent a bit of today in the paint rectification shed

after giving it a few days for the paint to harden a bit, i have been dealing with the major issues with my hurried paint slinging.

happily most of my major worries were unfounded as the paint appears dry to the touch (so many internet horror stories about drying times!) and not much debris has collected in/on the surface.

engine bay, apart from the two runs and a bit of overspray on the black bits is good enough







interior is not so good!

i only got a rough coat on due to the time/light/breathing issues. the lack of time spent on prep is reflected in how it looks not surprisingly.

apart from it being a bit lumpy looking there were a lot of areas where the paint had reacted with the substrate. this seemed to be where there was remains of the sound deadening, exposed oem seam sealer and where the vactan was sploshed onto rusty bits that had not been cleaned back enough.

as it needs at least another paint session, rather than just ignore it, i wizzed round the inside with an assortment of wire brushes to take the ugly bits back to bare metal.














i then tried rubbing down with a scotchbright pad , then some 180 grit and finally settled on using 120 grit as being most effective.

without bare metalling the whole interior it looks to be levelling the surface off acceptably taking into account the way the rustoleum goes on.





i only rubbed down the drivers footwell before boredom dinner called, so a lot more to do


total time spent 405 hours (not including 3 cups of coffee)

total spend £3010 (proper skint and decent coffee supplies are running very low, i have promised myself not to drink any of rich's dirty nescafe but i know i am weak )

Under the bonnet is cool, the lack of prep inside just a small oversight but Nescafe??
Hope your mate helps you out here :-)

i feel apprehensive about door fitting as i have bad feelings about both the yin/yang style sill replacements and the strangely squashed a pillar bottom.

that said - if you want to avoid doing anything constructive on your car, i'm game and i will hopefully be about on saturday/sunday

Coffee comes from a coffee machine, everything else is equally curse word but just for you I went to the shop: