With Christmas almost upon us, I spent a lot of Saturday getting the Christmas trees and lights up. With it all done, I finished off sanding the firewall, which I’d spent a few hours on this week before work. There were a lot of pinholes in the filler, and the firewall had seen fifty hard years worth of dents, so it was never going to be a thing of great beauty.

Once it was all relatively smooth, I gave the front of the garage a thorough clean out with the air line and vac, then tack ragged the firewall and covered the rest of the car ready for paint. A quick coat of etch primer made it look a million times better than I expected it to. I left it dry overnight, and in the morning gave it another quick fill with stopper. A quick bit of Christmas shopping and then back to sand it off. Another quick touch up with etch primer, followed by the remains of the tin of filler primer and I called it a day.