Hi Bill
It depends on how much you want to spend and how much effort you want to put
into it.
I stripped my Red Bugeye (see at ado13.com) down to bare metal top, bottom,
inside, outside, every place except the inside of the driveshaft tunnel.
I used a combination of paint removal wheels, sanding disks, wire wheels,
sand blasting, Propane torch, and chemical paint remover.
I used the chemical stripper in places I could not get at to sand and that I
was afraid sand blasting would not leave the surface smooth enough (door
jams, etc.)
I used the sand blaster (siphon type from Sears) on bad spots on the inside,
the bottom, and the engine compartment but not on exterior surfaces. I also
used it to carefully blast into corners that I just could not get with
anything else. I also used it to blast the inside of the doors but not on
the door skin, only down in the bottom and the ends.
I blasted the trunk floor and the inside fender wells. You have not lived
until you sandblast the inside of a Bugeye trunk.
I just used the old standard hardware store paint remover (water cleanup),
both brush on and spray on, nothing fancy. It sometimes took more than one
coat and it also took some scraping while it was working.
The results were as good as it can be done by hand and the cost was probably
less than $100 but it took me about 3 months of weekends and a lot of
nights.
Hope this helps with your decision.
Larry Miller
----- Original Message -----
From: BILL <billh@aaai.com>
To: 'Dan Mullis' <dmullis@Adobe.COM>; Spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, May 03, 1999 10:53 AM
Subject: RE: New Paint Codes.
> Welcome to the list Dan. I don't have any info on your paint code
> question but I have a question for you. how did you strip the paint? I'm
> at that stage and still not sure how to go about.
> Thanks
> Bill Hunt
> 64 MKII - Herbytoy
> billh@aaai.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Mullis [SMTP:dmullis@Adobe.COM]
> Sent: Monday, May 03, 1999 10:37 AM
> To: Spridgets
> Subject: New Paint Codes.
>
> Good Day,
>
> I went this weekend to pick up some paint to do my bugeye. The
> place I go to (car color in Gilroy, CA) has been very helpful
> but
> we were unable to come up with a paint code for "Old English
> White"
> (WT-3) that would cross match to a modern code. Does anyone
> have
> this info?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated,
>
> Dan(dmullis@adobe.com)
> 1960 bugeye
>
> Since this is my first email to the list, here is the story
> of the car.
>
> Sitting in a far corner of my neighbors yard, under a stack of
> rotting tarps I could see the just enough of the smile to know
> it was a bugeye. After months of watching it be neglected they
> put their house up for sale. I walked over and asked, what
> are you going to do with the Austin? "Why you want it?" was
> her reply. I gave them $200 and towed it home. That was early
> March. I have stripped it to bare metal and primed it. The
> biggest issue I have is that some idiot cut a big hole in the
> bonnet to add ventalation. I will post pictures on my web site
> when I get some better progress. My plan early on was to buy a
> 1275 from mini-mania along with a 5-speed. But after reading
> the conversations lately, I am leaning toward going stock
> and try to rebuild it's 948 which looks to be a major ordeal.
> Does anyone sell rebuilt 948's?
>
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