Re: Re: 1952 Paris built Normale RSJ 834

@tripyrenees wrote:

Yes, I feel your pain – I would flit between jobs just to keep me sane (secretly hoping someone would come in an finish off all the crappy jobs while I was not looking…. it never happened)

Looking good – what is the orange paint?

Yes I love final stage of body work but hate scraping off old felt and bitumen. Been so lucky though that I have found no major rust just a few small holes in places like behind door locating wedge plates and around the windscreen drain. I will fill them with new weld and grind down but so small it will not take a hour to do the lot. I too keep hoping when I return some of the rubbish jobs are done.

My problem is time, I am a Gas heating engineer and am really busy this time of year so if I am lucky I might get 2 hours in the evening to work on the car but since my stroke I find I get tired much quicker so that does not always happen either. I am hoping to get the car on the road again by the middle of April but not sure how realistic that is at present.

The red paint is Red Oxide paint, always use it after treating the surface rust and before spraying primer filler on. I brush it on in unseen places but spray it on if it will be where final finish is important.