{"id":96,"date":"2004-03-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-04-01T16:57:16","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T16:57:16","slug":"bel-air\/cleaning-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"Cleaning the Roof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After doing the underside of the car so easily with the cleaning discs, I bought a load more and decided to do the roof if the weather was OK today. It looked like rain, but I chanced it and wheeled the tub outside to work on. While it was out I took the light fittings off and moved them up into the roof to enable me to spin the car round a bit further in the garage. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/03\/Roof_Buzzed.jpg\" width=\"443\" height=\"308\" alt=\"Roof_Buzzed.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>One disc and a few hours later i had a bare metal roof, was black from head to toe, and the drive was covered in a layer of dirt. There was more filler in the roof, and like all the other filler I&#8217;d found, seemed to be for no real reason.<br \/>\nI blew the dust off with the air line, then cleaned the bare metal with thinners and polished it off with a clean rag. Being unable to get at the roof properly meant it needed to be painted outside, but as this was only to cover the bare metal I wasn&#8217;t too concerned. As I shook the rattle can paint, out of nowhere some flies landed on the roof just to remind me why you don&#8217;t paint cars outside. Within ten minutes of painting, it started to rain, so it went back in and I called it a day. John Fraser popped over in the night and lent me his spot blast gun. Will have a go of that on the awkward bits.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/03\/Roof_Dusted.jpg\" width=\"443\" height=\"314\" alt=\"Roof_Dusted.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After doing the underside of the car so easily with the cleaning discs, I bought a load more and decided to do the roof if the weather was OK today. It looked like rain, but I chanced it and wheeled the tub outside to work on. While it was out I took the light fittings off and moved them up into the roof to enable me to spin the car round a bit further in the garage. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/03\/Roof_Buzzed.jpg\" width=\"443\" height=\"308\" alt=\"Roof_Buzzed.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>One disc and a few hours later i had a bare metal roof, was black from head to toe, and the drive was covered in a layer of dirt. There was more filler in the roof, and like all the other filler I&#8217;d found, seemed to be for no real reason.<br \/>\nI blew the dust off with the air line, then cleaned the bare metal with thinners and polished it off with a clean rag. Being unable to get at the roof properly meant it needed to be painted outside, but as this was only to cover the bare metal I wasn&#8217;t too concerned. As I shook the rattle can paint, out of nowhere some flies landed on the roof just to remind me why you don&#8217;t paint cars outside. Within ten minutes of painting, it started to rain, so it went back in and I called it a day. John Fraser popped over in the night and lent me his spot blast gun. Will have a go of that on the awkward bits.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/03\/Roof_Dusted.jpg\" width=\"443\" height=\"314\" alt=\"Roof_Dusted.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-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","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=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}