Doogs' Ke20 - Lke020

[benzo]

I did a stack of work on my girlfriend in year 12, car came later. hahaha.

 

I hope my mum doesnt read this, cos I'm losing on 2 counts so far.

 

Bahahaha

[Doogs]

Lol philbey, will see how I go.

 

My mate's in the middle of a full respray and he is in year 12, so spose

a little work can't hurt.

 

I might get a bit done soon.

Edited April 23, 2010 by Doogs

[Doogs]

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Edited January 2, 2010 by Doogs

[Doogs]

I am starting to get together the bits I will need to do the bit of bodywork

in the next few weeks, and so I need to know a bit about the paint.

 

I will be getting the front left 1/4 sodablasted, whilst baremetalling other areas and

then preping to be painted round in my mates shed. I am also looking to purchase a bootlid.

 

From what I can see, the recent paint work has been done in a white fairly close

to the original colour. The original stuff looks a little duller, but I assume this is just faded.

 

Doug has already suggested it is "Peak White'' which I have found on the toyota colour charts

to be a 1990 colour :) If this matches up ok, then I will use it, but because of reading the year

1990 off the chart it has put some doubt in my mind. (Although i figure there should not be many different

shades of white anyway).

 

So I decided that i might get a tester pot of Peak white and check it against what I have, and if it does not

suit get a colour match done.

 

Does anyone have any other ideas of what the colour might be?

 

I had a look on the plates in the engine bay and searched through the original papers, without much

success.

 

According to the plate in the engine bay;

 

Paint/Trim : H2 TG

 

I could not see either of these codes on the colour charts, so that appears to be no help either.

 

Anyone got an idea ?

 

Thanks,

 

Dougal

[Doogs]

Things now make sense :)

 

According to glenn87s previous sales thread the car was originally baby blue. That

explains the blue bits coming through in some areas.

 

Peak white may be the one afterall !

[PMP020]

the car was originaly white.

 

then had some crap blue spray job, when i bought it.

 

so we stripped it, sprayed it white again.

 

and now u have it.

 

cheers, scott

[Doogs]

Cheers Scott, that was what I was starting to think towards the end of today.

(After looking through the papers again and having another look at the paint.)

 

Anyone got a Ke20 bootlid that would suit ?

 

Thanks,

[Doogs]

Front gaurd is off and I will be taking it to a paint shop tomorrow to get a colour match done.

Hopefully will get it soda blasted this weekend.

[philbey]

What's the soda blast goinr to cost you, and are they coming to you to do it?

[Doogs]

Not sure, as the place I was gonna go to have now become a recycling

company !

 

I am gonna make do with the current bootlid, I will just be sending it off with

the 1/4 to get beadblasted.

 

Anyone know of a good place in the eastern suburbs of melbourne ?

[philbey]

Can you bead blast panels? Double check that dougal, I know if you use the wrong media when blasting panels that you can warp the panel quite easily.

 

I'd make sure your blaster has done car stuff before you give it to him.

[Doogs]

Thanks Tom, will check that up.

 

A mate suggested mediablasting over sandblasting because he said the metal will be easyer to

work with afterwards, and it is not as harsh.

He also said the soda would be a waste of $ for this, and would not really do the job either.

[philbey]

Paint stripper and hard work would be the other way haha!

[Doogs]

Paint stripper and hard work would be the other way haha!

 

Yeah, if I don't end up sending it to get blasted I will just wire brush it.

[Doogs]

A bit of an update.

 

I collected the paint and a few other bits yesterday, and am happy to say that Eastern Auto Paints were very helpful

and sold it all to me at trade price. :D

 

Unfortunately Mum would not let me use the carport and so I was instructed to use an old tent of ours in the backyard.

(so I set this up last friday)

 

 

Thankfully Dad came to the rescue and bought me a big tarp to use as well as the car cover I have.

So I ended up with this,

 

 

Today I started to work at the spare wheel well, with the help of ; my younger brother, some paint stripper, the angle grinder

and some rust converter.

 

Before

 

 

 

After attack and before rust converter.

 

 

 

 

It still needs a bit more work, which I will hopefully do tomorrow allong with the front apron and a few other things.

 

I have managed to get in touch with a place called alliance blasting, and they will probably garnit blast my front gaurd

and bootlid by early next week.