[WickedSnake00]

Originally Posted by Gregski Eventually I will touch things up with body filler aka bondo where necessary and shoot the entire car again, this time with build primer, then spray it with a guide coat to help me block sand it. Then I'll be considering silver metallic base coat clear coat as my final layers.

Whoa. Bondo before primer. Always.

If you do go back and touch areas up with body filler, you'll have to sand back down to bare metal before application. That was one of the cardinal body work rules I was taught, bondo should be applied to nothing but bare sanded metal. Then you get to sand it flat, prime it, and feather the edges back into the first coat of primer. Not always so bad, then you get to learn how to feather, which is valuable when doing spot painting.

Just for future reference, here's the sequence of events I usually use:
metalwork, coarse body filler, lightweight body filler, high build/filler primer, primer, color, clear. With copious amounts of block sanding in there of course.

I don't know if you already knew this, but I just want to make sure you don't end up laying bondo on top of primer, and see a chunk of your paint fly off when you're driving down the road some day.

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by WickedSnake00 Whoa. Bondo before primer. Always.

Noted, though epoxy is an entirely different animal than regular primer, technically I still need to weld shut the body trim holes so I will be stripping the epoxy to bare metal to weld those, then grinding the welds down flush, then bondo on to bare metal as you pointed out, then epoxy, then build primer, yaha, yada yada

though as with most things in the automotive industry there are two schools of thought on the subject of body filler on bare metal vs body filler on epoxy primer, enough so to warrant guys doing comparisons such as this one, a bit extreme testing methodology if you ask me but worth sharing

Epoxy or No Epoxy Under Filler - Autobodystore

[Countryboy_99]

That is some good looking metal.

I was sent a dvd from hot rod all about body work and sheet metal prep. Makes me actually do some stuff like this, not to the scale you are. But like a just do an individual panel for someone or something.

[keyba]

you make it look so easy wish my 65,70 and 88 where going that easy lol

[SStang67]

Dude where you at? I have been following this for about 5 weeks now and you disappeared for 2 weeks? Good stuff!

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by SStang67 Dude where you at? I have been following this for about 5 weeks now and you disappeared for 2 weeks? Good stuff!

thanks bud, I took a much needed break, this project is done, this thread is done, the goal was to prep and primer the car, not to paint it, that would have killed me. yes the car will be painted, later this year I hope, yes I plan on doing it myself, but for now I am trading sand paper for wrenches so check out my new thread where I try to bring back to life a water filled 289 motor.

1968 289 H20

[DJShawn]

I have a 68 also. i did the motor work, now it's time for prime and paint. Since you have experience now, wanna do mine?? j/k i will be referring to your posts. thank you. and oh yeah, bump bump for optimus!!

[Israel]

Originally Posted by Gregski thanks bud, I took a much needed break, this project is done, this thread is done, the goal was to prep and primer the car, not to paint it, that would have killed me. yes the car will be painted, later this year I hope, yes I plan on doing it myself, but for now I am trading sand paper for wrenches so check out my new thread where I try to bring back to life a water filled 289 motor. 1968 289 H20

I also mised your humor, see if you can edit the 289 thread to add in some type of Optimus Prime Spongepants heading.

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by Israel I also mised your humor, see if you can edit the 289 thread to add in some type of Optimus Prime Spongepants heading.

Don't say you didn't ask for it: Full Frontal

[Israel]

Now we can all follow along, you've become quite the popular poster man, I'm glad to be able to say that I knew you when you were just a nobody with the rusted roof issue,...now you're a somebody with a pretty good following.

You'll probably be needing your very own forum,...Gregski.com,...can I be a Mod,...please?

[1st Stang]

Great write-ups! I can't wait now to start on mine. Reading that you live in Sac gave me even more inspiration. Thanx. Hope I can see your car in person some day.