Today I finished priming one whole rear quarter and had finished whole front end in primer 2 days ago. I'm past halfway to getting it full primer painted! Next will do whole rear panel and rear hatch and after that the roof and another rear quarter to do.

I've taken pics but are in a cheap camera - have to wait til film's all used up.

By Canada76civic (Canada76civic) (68.146.162.88) on Sunday, November 21, 2004 - 11:44 am:

Thanks for the offer on the body shop guys - I didn't think I'd need any but will keep in mind. I've been in trade for almost 12 years.

Well, the doors are used off another civic with mininal rust. My original doors were too much of work to fix them - one door had rust eaten out on inside bottom (not worth to fix! BIG hole ,lol) and another door too damaged, won't look good anyway.

The new doors I got are in better than mine, however still need some work. I stripped all parts off each door, sandblast them full inside and outside to kill off any rust and then check for all dings and cover any small rust holes. All fixed and smoothed away. Last went on primer coats.

I'm gonna paint partly inside where metal are visiable in the interior. and total full on exterior body. I'm doing a 3-stage project while I'm using that car. The first is only to get body inspection passed so I can drive the car for work. The second stage is to rebuild another 1200 engine and gather solid body rear quarters and rocker panels and more parts (!!) on my U.S. trips next year...to replace the ones I have on my car. I prefer solid clean striaght panels - all metal, lol!

Last stage will get the car totally replace engine for new engine and tranny, replace panels then paint full inside and outside again for better job. That's be about a year to 2 years later in this stage. I'm taking it slow as budget permit.

By Bluebot (Bluebot) (207.109.253.238) on Sunday, November 21, 2004 - 09:51 am:

makes sense, i was wondering why it would take two days to get a panel finished. had me worried, i'm about four months away from painting my wagon. was afraid it always took that long. i'll use air tools though. i live right next to a body shop so if you get into any ruts, bounce me a message. the guys at the body shop are pretty helpful. are you doing inside and out? post pix if you can.

By Canada76civic (Canada76civic) (68.146.162.88) on Saturday, November 20, 2004 - 01:47 pm:

Bluedot, few power tools and lots, lots of elbow grease!! Yah, I'm more of old skool for long time. I acutally don't use power inline sanders - did only with my hands.

I got almost 2 panels nearly ready for primer on monday if I have bit of time. My boss tell me today I'll get few new jobs coming so have to hold til the jobs are done and away then back to my car.

By Bluebot (Bluebot) (207.109.253.238) on Saturday, November 20, 2004 - 10:23 am:

hey canada76,
are you using power tools or oldskool elbow grease?

By Canada76civic (Canada76civic) (68.146.162.88) on Saturday, November 20, 2004 - 08:55 am:

Yesterday I finished primered one fender - all good and clean. Today I'll do bit work on rear quarter and try finish another fender for primer.

If kept at this pace, I believe I'd get the whole car all in primer ready for new paint before Christmas...I hope!

By Canada76civic (Canada76civic) (68.146.162.88) on Friday, November 19, 2004 - 06:50 am:

Well, it looks that today I may get a chance to do work on my civic. What I've done so far was getting 2 doors all done in primer and sanded ready for paint. The doors were worked out to get real smooth and striaght! I gutted all the parts off the door for full paint job.

Next I will do the rear hatch door then my car for primer...finally for new paint! I find that each door took me 2 days each from start to primer coat - not bad!