6/2/14 The Final Touches

If this is your first time viewing this blog please excuse the post of 6/13/13. It is out of sync, date wise, and I can't get it back to the proper position. Anyway, moving on to the real subject, the 33 Ford has been changed slightly in the past few months. Most of the changes have been to things like the computer settings, a few changes to the wiring and some to the paint. 

In this photo, if you look at the clarity of the light grids, you can see the difference between the hood on the right and the cowl on the left.

I decided that I needed to re-sand the hood to try and remove some of the unevenness in the surface of the paint. This unevenness is probably due to it being sanded too soon after painting and the paint was not completely dry. 

The surface turned out to be a little rougher than I though and to remove the unevenness it required that I start with 1000 grit paper then move on to 1500.

Here is the final product after all of the sanding, buffing and polishing.

I've brought my car over to Bob Davidson to have it pinstriped. Bob has been doing this for over 50 years and is well known throughout the west coast. The Blue Ford is one of Bob's cars.

Bob is putting the finishing touches on the lettering. LOLA. "Whatever LOLA wants LOLA gets"

As a little side note Bob showed us some of the hot rod awards and memorabilia he has accumulated over the years.

For all of you old enough to remember the song "Hot Rod Lincoln", it was written by Charlie Ryan. Bob told us the story of how the song came to Charlie, a northwest country singer and part owner of a 1948 Lincoln that was used for transportation between appearances. During one of their trips the Lincoln was rolled so they decided to take the body off, shorten the frame and put a hot rod body back on the shortened Lincoln frame. Bob did the pin-striping of the new "Hot Rod Lincoln"

More awards

There seemed to be no end to the awards.

Here are a couple more cars owned by Bob

All done, thanks Bob

One of the planning meeting for our attempt to get to Yellowstone and Cody Wy. this summer, in our hotrods. It should be a lot of fun because I know this group is a lot of fun.