{"id":108,"date":"2004-05-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-04-01T16:57:16","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T16:57:16","slug":"bel-air\/starting-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/?p=108","title":{"rendered":"Starting on the Doors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I filled the three big dents in the roof yesterday, and sanded it out in the sunshine. Then wheeled the car back in to paint it, and made a complete mess of it. It was so bad, I wiped it off while it was wet and did a very light coat again. I let it dry, then next day sanded it all out and had a go with a smaller gun that my mate John had leant me. Much better, and a smoother result. I think it&#8217;s time to get a decent gun before trying any more. As the weather was good and the neighbours were in the garden, I decided not to paint today, and to clean one of the doors instead. The rear drivers side was worst, so I stripped off all the trim and glass and started to clean it. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/05\/DoorUntouched.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"347\" alt=\"DoorUntouched.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A few hours with the grinder left it all looking as new, apart from a rust hole in the corner. I ground it out with a die grinder, then cut the edges in straight lines and made a cardboard template to fit, then cut a patch that fitted tightly. I welded this in, then ground it all flat and filled this and the dents in the door.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/05\/PatchCut.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"212\" alt=\"PatchCut.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was getting late, so I sanded it all out quickly, and put the door on axle stands against the wall for painting. I used the gun John had leant me again, and painted it top to bottom without any problems. Well, that&#8217;s one down, three to go&#8230;. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/05\/DoorPrimed.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"299\" alt=\"DoorPrimed.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I filled the three big dents in the roof yesterday, and sanded it out in the sunshine. Then wheeled the car back in to paint it, and made a complete mess of it. It was so bad, I wiped it off while it was wet and did a very light coat again. I let it dry, then next day sanded it all out and had a go with a smaller gun that my mate John had leant me. Much better, and a smoother result. I think it&#8217;s time to get a decent gun before trying any more. As the weather was good and the neighbours were in the garden, I decided not to paint today, and to clean one of the doors instead. The rear drivers side was worst, so I stripped off all the trim and glass and started to clean it. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/05\/DoorUntouched.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"347\" alt=\"DoorUntouched.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A few hours with the grinder left it all looking as new, apart from a rust hole in the corner. I ground it out with a die grinder, then cut the edges in straight lines and made a cardboard template to fit, then cut a patch that fitted tightly. I welded this in, then ground it all flat and filled this and the dents in the door.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/05\/PatchCut.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"212\" alt=\"PatchCut.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was getting late, so I sanded it all out quickly, and put the door on axle stands against the wall for painting. I used the gun John had leant me again, and painted it top to bottom without any problems. Well, that&#8217;s one down, three to go&#8230;. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/05\/DoorPrimed.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"299\" alt=\"DoorPrimed.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}