Well the 87 had a few blemishes as seen in picture 1. I decided to strip it and attempt to paint it. Started it off with a paint scraper which worked great on the smooth parts since the paint was chipping.

 

Its my first attempt at body work/painting. The first picture is after i hit it with 80 grit, and i decided to shave off the from emblem (opinions welcomed) i covered up some chipping on the plastic.

picture 2 is the emblem shaved off

picture 3 is the nose where it had damage from scraping. it was missing a nice 1X1.5 piece

 

pic 1 is the front, shows the shaved emblem and the repaired nose. taped up fog lights


ran to homedepot real quick for some primer, sprayed this in a few mins so its still fresh when i took the picture

 

got a close up on the nose and the front side again. i got alittle bit more minor dings to repair. and then im going to paint the front end with the color red included as attachment 3

tips and opinions are welcomed

 

looks like you have taken on a good project . remember , clean , clean , clean , between applications . a good finish depends on good prep work . good luck . keep us up dated .

 

Thanks, as for the cleaning is soap and water fine?

Here are a few pics of the dried primer this morning. The darker parts is dew from a cold morning

 

grease and wax remover is always a good thing to use also.

what did you use to fill the emblem? if you used body filler be aware it may shrink a bit. they make a two part epoxy for repairing urathane for like what you are doing and it works great.

 

i used resin on everything. after a little searching on the forums i found out the epoxy would be the best