The Body Shop

So we are catching up to real time, this is now early January 2007, and the car is at Redwood Auto Body in Healdsburg, California. You might ask as I did, why paint the car before all the mechanicals are done to it. My more experienced pardners idea is to get it done ASAP so all you's guys would take one look, say "WOW", and open those checkbooks. You hoards of fans out there who have been reading these may have noticed that we are looking for sponsors, Redwood Auto Body has stepped up in a big, BIG way, like donating the body work and painting the old beast. Our Hero, Dennis Parrish, Redwood's owner, is an old friend of North Bay Bavarian, but, so what, it's a LOT of work.
OK, so, just sand down the rough spots and spray the thing!

Oh, no, no, no, this is going to be a real paint job, a nice paint job, make that, a proper paint job! All the side moulding holes, remember I told you about those, get plugged and sanded. The rust spots ( rust! what rust?) are repaired and filled, more sanding. The body is then "skimmed", that's where a coat of thin bondo or "icing" is applied, then sanded, to take out any deformity or imperfections in a 43 year old body. More sanding, primer coat, sanded again, and then painted. Something like that anyway. What do I know about all this, I read an article on body repair, now I'm an expert. One of the good things about this car was that the body seemed to be in pretty good shape, with no major dents.
It being the start of the rainy season, which means the busy season for a body shop, and us being on the dole for the work, things have chugged slowly along.
But I was there the other day and took some of these pictures, and I heard the car's now primered, so we are coming to the finish at the body shop.

The boys did save one job for us, I'm told it's the most fun of all, sanding the door jams, sweet!!

Dennis, Doug, Mike, everybody, I hope you're not cringing reading all this because we so appreciate the effort you've put in. If it wasn't for you guys, then it would be a "Miracle".

Get it?!

NEXT TIME: The Paint Job

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