After years of Sun, rain, hail, cows and goats in the field the respray perished. I called a local shop to see what they would just spray it for and he said" I won't touch it unless I do everything to it" meaning putty on up. So starts my arduous process of bodywork.
the sanding and grinding off aren't the problem, it's working the hail dents and dents from a cow on the driver fender out. Some came out w/ a hammer and dollie (about 60% more than previous work) and some I'm still massaging. So far it's been 5 hours for 2 fenders.
O.D Green would be an interesting color, kinda like the almond green they had on the midgets
There was a ton of sanding to get it down past the respray and original color. I'd do some minor filler, sand the next day, then go over it again to see if there were any more hail dents. That took 4 days. The drivers fender taking 85% of that time. The passenger side had 2 dings. That's it.
I'd imagine that the fenders alone have 10 hours in them now due to the curves in them.
Next will be some high build primer, sanding, and then bolt it on for painting...
The windshield "shelf" got the same treatment. The original paint was pristine under some spots, peeling in others.
The dash-glued on vynil was removed also for renovation.
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