Re: Larry's 1951 Club Sedan Project

Posted by Larry51 On 2010/7/1 7:53:48

Cleaning and Painting Underside

This work completed a couple of months ago . . . I'm running quite a ways behind with my posts, plenty of distractions due to family matters lately.

This result is after days of laying under the body getting covered with the gunk scraped off, then getting dripped on by kerosene and thinners as I wiped every surface several times to get it totally clean. A lot of the surface needed to be sanded as well.

Then there were two washes with Metal Ready before the POR15 was applied (by brush). Not a pleasant job, but really worthwhile and satisfying when you consider how foul the underside of the car was before it was cleaned and painted.

I'm very happy that this work was done with the body on a frame, separated from the chassis. I had plenty of room to get in and under the body, and could get at all the difficult sections.

The finish is two coats of POR15.

Here are pics taken before and after.

What we have here is an awful lot of crud!!









Then after cleaning . . .










And finally - painted