Hi Folks,
My glacial progress on my US sourced CMC continues......I've had it up and running with all of the paperwork sorted for past 12 months, (no longer an easy task here in UK). Car drives great ! In the meantime, I had a new interior run up and new hood made. Last november I began the teardown for paint.......
Work and life got in the way, so only now have I got round to splashing on some paint.
After being let down several times by the lad who was gonna lay down the paint, I decided to have a go myself 
. Although I have all of the required air fed mask, I decided against 2k and went with good old school cellulose, ( I did my last resto, a fiat 500 with 2k, found it an immense pain working in my tiny garage with an air fed and also found the paint to be very brittle after a year or so)
So here is my first trial panel !!
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Nice and shiny straight off of the gun (fluke), but a tiny bit dry in a couple of places......Will leave for a few days and color sand to see if the finish is acceptable, but so far I like it 
. No science in the color choice, its RAL3001, picked off of the chart in the paintstore. (my interior is black with red stitching)
Rest of the car looks like this (for those who have not seen it in the dim and distant past....: )
Shot at 2012-02-28
Cheers,
Gerry
(in sunny Scotland)
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