1968 Ford Torino Pproject - SPI Support

[Lundman]

I just wanted to post some pics from a Torino my son and I sprayed about this time last year. Thanks to SPI and a couple calls to Barry it turned out pretty good considering it was my first time spraying a car. All I can say is I followed the instructions to a T. Barry helped me diagnose that my water separator was not working and/or my compressor had a build up of water in the bottom. Was causing small bubbles in my sealer coat. The run down is as follows:

Evercoat Slicksand Primer
SPI Epoxy sealer
Dupont Chromabase viper red 3 coats
SPI Universal Clear with the slow activator 3 coats
Iwata LPH-400

Again thanks Barry and I would use the Universal Clear again in a heart beat. I got a couple flow indicators (per panel) but nothing I couldn't cut and buff. It was amazing to see the final outcome. The only thing I would do is take the extra time to do the flow coat. The only reason I say that is we ghosted in the hood stripe and I was nervous when I wet sanded the edge. I never burned through and it is truly ghosted bust some insurance there would have been nice. I noticed alot of other posts on here have pictures of the whole process. Can update this with the good ...bad and the ugly when I get some more time.

Ken

 

[rusty428cj]

Looks great. I had a new red 1969 Fairlane Cobra great car. That was my first race car.

 

[Barry]

Ken,
The car just looks fantastic! Perfect color combo.

 

[Deleted member 7]

Nice ride and work bro... Something you can be proud of and totally kewl that your son was involved!!

 

[Lundman]

1968 Torino the rest of the story

My 15 year old picked up this car about 2 years ago. The people wanted more than he paid but since he was the only buyer that wanted to fix it up instead of part it out on Ebay ...he got it. Towed it home ....drained the gas and it has ran like a top ever since. One thing led to another and it was in pieces and we were starting to see the cars history ...one layer of paint at a time. Ended up taking it to bare metal .... A friend referred SPI products and I had nothing but a great experience using the sealer and universal clear. Posting some pics from the process. If nothing else I hope that guys like me that dont have access to a down draft booth can see you can do it in your garage and get a decent job.

Thanks again to Barry and everybody that posts on here. I read several threads before buying my gun and selecting what base to use. I dont know if I would have had the insight to complete this project without seeing the success of others with similar skill sets.

The pictures are somewhat out of order. We sprayed the doors, hood, trunk lid and valence at Thanksgiving and the body about 2 weeks later in December. We are in Utah and I had a insulated garage that we used a space heater and a propane construction type heater. I mainly kept the garage in the 40's-50's with the radiant oil heater. Then when we were going to paint I would heat the place up with the propane heater and turn it off just as we started to paint then back on when the fumes cleared.. The booth had some furnace filters on one side and two box fans that pushed the air out the garage window. The first time we turned on the fans we about collapsed the booth. We added another filter and got it balanced. It worked out for our once in every 5 year project ... I have the booth for next time. The only other thing we did was to spray down the floor with water from a insect sprayer before every coat. Used tack cloth between coats and did end up with some trash and some runs in the clear but it all disappeared after cut and buff. Time for my disclaimer .... Make sure your booth is completely clear of paint fumes and vapor before you fire up the propane heater. Dont need a Jackass 4 episode yet.

 

[Chad.S]

Looks like a nice car.. You should be proud!!

 

[C10chas]

Great looking car and awesome that you and your son did it together!
I wish my son would get inspired to finish his 71 K10 that we began a frame off resto on back in 05....