Caddylackn
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I sat back and realized I have now had this car for 30 years with little or no progress in the last 5 years. Time to get something done and get it out of my garage so I can work on my Caddy powered truck project. I refuse to do the truck motor swap outside and need this swap done in the garage so I can have easy access to welder, compressor, tools, music, shade, etc.
Step #1. Spend the Fourth of July weekend cleaning the garage to get this uncovered and get some room to work on it. A 20' cadillac can store a ton of sh.t on top of it and in it. I also have a full size table saw, jig saw, 4 engines, and 3 trannys that need to move out of the way enough to get all four doors open at once.
Step #2 Clean off fives year's of dust and cat hair. Clean and vacuum out the inside of the car of junk.
Step #3 Take inventory of what to accomplish first to get this moving. Seems like the critical path is to install the interior and seats to get this up and driving so I can paint it in my "paint booth" costco garage tent for primer, final sanding, and sealer. I hate sanding in the garage and getting this dust everywhere. The other reason to install the interior as it takes a ton of space in the garage that I want back. Before I install the interior I need to paint all the door insides and jambs and interior parts the final color so I can put the carpet in and the seats and door panels.
Step #4 Before I paint the door jambs I need to remove the door trim and rubber seals and tag and bag them.
Step #5 then comes the fun parts. Sanding, cleaning, and masking all the door jambs and hinges for the color change. The final color is Black Sapphire Metallic, which needs to be shot over a black sealer base. So sand, clean and tape all day. Clean and shoot the black primer sealer 3 coats needed to cover the white.
Good coverage on the sealer, looks white but that is shine.
Now shoot some color. First the tack coat. BTW I am using a cheap Harbor Freight touch up gun. Unfortunately this gun is discontinued, too bad works great for jambs for $15.
It will be a lot of fun block sanding these contour lines. I picked this color so these body lines will really stand out in the sun as every surface with a different angle will have a different color.
It came out pretty good and very shiny. A few dust particles, but still real progress. I am not going to spray clear the jambs but will clear the outside of the car with three coats clear. I took a trim plate outside and this color really looks nice in the sun with the metallic. I hope I can spray it without getting metallic stripes. Clear coat would cover this orange peel.
Step #1. Spend the Fourth of July weekend cleaning the garage to get this uncovered and get some room to work on it. A 20' cadillac can store a ton of sh.t on top of it and in it. I also have a full size table saw, jig saw, 4 engines, and 3 trannys that need to move out of the way enough to get all four doors open at once.
Step #2 Clean off fives year's of dust and cat hair. Clean and vacuum out the inside of the car of junk.
Step #3 Take inventory of what to accomplish first to get this moving. Seems like the critical path is to install the interior and seats to get this up and driving so I can paint it in my "paint booth" costco garage tent for primer, final sanding, and sealer. I hate sanding in the garage and getting this dust everywhere. The other reason to install the interior as it takes a ton of space in the garage that I want back. Before I install the interior I need to paint all the door insides and jambs and interior parts the final color so I can put the carpet in and the seats and door panels.
Step #4 Before I paint the door jambs I need to remove the door trim and rubber seals and tag and bag them.

Step #5 then comes the fun parts. Sanding, cleaning, and masking all the door jambs and hinges for the color change. The final color is Black Sapphire Metallic, which needs to be shot over a black sealer base. So sand, clean and tape all day. Clean and shoot the black primer sealer 3 coats needed to cover the white.



Good coverage on the sealer, looks white but that is shine.
Now shoot some color. First the tack coat. BTW I am using a cheap Harbor Freight touch up gun. Unfortunately this gun is discontinued, too bad works great for jambs for $15.



It will be a lot of fun block sanding these contour lines. I picked this color so these body lines will really stand out in the sun as every surface with a different angle will have a different color.
It came out pretty good and very shiny. A few dust particles, but still real progress. I am not going to spray clear the jambs but will clear the outside of the car with three coats clear. I took a trim plate outside and this color really looks nice in the sun with the metallic. I hope I can spray it without getting metallic stripes. Clear coat would cover this orange peel.
