benzo Posted May 2, 2008 Report Share Posted May 2, 2008 I did a stack of work on my girlfriend in year 12, car came later. hahaha. I hope my mum doesnt read this, cos I'm losing on 2 counts so far. Bahahaha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doogs Posted May 3, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 3, 2008 (edited) Lol philbey, will see how I go. My mate's in the middle of a full respray and he is in year 12, so spose a little work can't hurt. I might get a bit done soon. Edited April 23, 2010 by Doogs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Doogs Posted June 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2008 I am starting to get together the bits I will need to do the bit of bodywork in the next few weeks, and so I need to know a bit about the paint. I will be getting the front left 1/4 sodablasted, whilst baremetalling other areas and then preping to be painted round in my mates shed. I am also looking to purchase a bootlid. From what I can see, the recent paint work has been done in a white fairly close to the original colour. The original stuff looks a little duller, but I assume this is just faded. Doug has already suggested it is "Peak White'' which I have found on the toyota colour charts to be a 1990 colour :) If this matches up ok, then I will use it, but because of reading the year 1990 off the chart it has put some doubt in my mind. (Although i figure there should not be many different shades of white anyway). So I decided that i might get a tester pot of Peak white and check it against what I have, and if it does not suit get a colour match done. Does anyone have any other ideas of what the colour might be? I had a look on the plates in the engine bay and searched through the original papers, without much success. According to the plate in the engine bay; Paint/Trim : H2 TG I could not see either of these codes on the colour charts, so that appears to be no help either. Anyone got an idea ? Thanks, Dougal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doogs Posted June 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2008 Things now make sense :) According to glenn87s previous sales thread the car was originally baby blue. That explains the blue bits coming through in some areas. Peak white may be the one afterall ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PMP020 Posted June 17, 2008 Report Share Posted June 17, 2008 the car was originaly white. then had some crap blue spray job, when i bought it. so we stripped it, sprayed it white again. and now u have it. cheers, scott Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doogs Posted June 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2008 Cheers Scott, that was what I was starting to think towards the end of today. (After looking through the papers again and having another look at the paint.) Anyone got a Ke20 bootlid that would suit ? Thanks, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doogs Posted June 19, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2008 Front gaurd is off and I will be taking it to a paint shop tomorrow to get a colour match done. Hopefully will get it soda blasted this weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philbey Posted June 19, 2008 Report Share Posted June 19, 2008 What's the soda blast goinr to cost you, and are they coming to you to do it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doogs Posted June 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2008 Not sure, as the place I was gonna go to have now become a recycling company ! I am gonna make do with the current bootlid, I will just be sending it off with the 1/4 to get beadblasted. Anyone know of a good place in the eastern suburbs of melbourne ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philbey Posted June 26, 2008 Report Share Posted June 26, 2008 Can you bead blast panels? Double check that dougal, I know if you use the wrong media when blasting panels that you can warp the panel quite easily. I'd make sure your blaster has done car stuff before you give it to him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doogs Posted June 26, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2008 Thanks Tom, will check that up. A mate suggested mediablasting over sandblasting because he said the metal will be easyer to work with afterwards, and it is not as harsh. He also said the soda would be a waste of $ for this, and would not really do the job either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philbey Posted June 26, 2008 Report Share Posted June 26, 2008 Paint stripper and hard work would be the other way haha! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doogs Posted June 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2008 Paint stripper and hard work would be the other way haha! Yeah, if I don't end up sending it to get blasted I will just wire brush it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doogs Posted July 2, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2008 A bit of an update. I collected the paint and a few other bits yesterday, and am happy to say that Eastern Auto Paints were very helpful and sold it all to me at trade price. :D Unfortunately Mum would not let me use the carport and so I was instructed to use an old tent of ours in the backyard. (so I set this up last friday) Thankfully Dad came to the rescue and bought me a big tarp to use as well as the car cover I have. So I ended up with this, Today I started to work at the spare wheel well, with the help of ; my younger brother, some paint stripper, the angle grinder and some rust converter. Before After attack and before rust converter. It still needs a bit more work, which I will hopefully do tomorrow allong with the front apron and a few other things. I have managed to get in touch with a place called alliance blasting, and they will probably garnit blast my front gaurd and bootlid by early next week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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