{"id":121,"date":"2004-08-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-04T16:10:46","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T16:10:46","slug":"bel-air\/painting-some-more-little-bits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"Painting some more little bits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"443\" height=\"250\" alt=\"FrontEndBits.jpg\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/08\/FrontEndBits.jpg\" \/>   When I put the wheels on the car, I realised just how much of the suspension would be visible. I had stuck the front end together previously as it came, so it was bare metal. It had small patches of rust on here and there as well. I stripped the brakes off and cleaned the calipers and spindles up ready to paint. I had masked the A-Arms already, so I masked the spindles and calipers and hung it all from the roof ready to paint. A quick coat of etch, and I left it all dry while we went out for lunch. When I got back, I sprayed the spindles and A-Arm mounts black, then washed up for a coat of white for the calipers. White calipers? Nah. A coat of the green I chose for the car and I had some much better looking brakes to put back on. Only thing now is the discs look a little small in those big open wheels&#8230;&#8230;    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"443\" height=\"379\" alt=\"CaliperPainted.jpg\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/08\/CaliperPainted.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"443\" height=\"250\" alt=\"FrontEndBits.jpg\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/08\/FrontEndBits.jpg\" \/>   When I put the wheels on the car, I realised just how much of the suspension would be visible. I had stuck the front end together previously as it came, so it was bare metal. It had small patches of rust on here and there as well. I stripped the brakes off and cleaned the calipers and spindles up ready to paint. I had masked the A-Arms already, so I masked the spindles and calipers and hung it all from the roof ready to paint. A quick coat of etch, and I left it all dry while we went out for lunch. When I got back, I sprayed the spindles and A-Arm mounts black, then washed up for a coat of white for the calipers. White calipers? Nah. A coat of the green I chose for the car and I had some much better looking brakes to put back on. Only thing now is the discs look a little small in those big open wheels&#8230;&#8230;    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"443\" height=\"379\" alt=\"CaliperPainted.jpg\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/08\/CaliperPainted.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-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","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=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}