Hey Bill,

Glad to hear that I am not the only one in the whole universe to put plug wires on plugs 180 degrees out — but I only had 4 plug wires to play with — and the 2.3L motor sure ran better when the right wire was on the correct plug!!

By the way, my hat is WAY OFF to those of you who have built your cars from scratch (Bill, Paul,…[Read more]

Glad you got fire at least. Did you ever find another suitable spot for the oil cooler?

yes Paul is right. No clay bar some 1500 wet dry.

Well, last week I had every intention of firing this mother up. It had other ideas. She would crank but not run. Thought maybe the wires were off 180*. Changed them. Maybe I was off one post. Changed them again. Nothing. Finally got tired of that and pulled the right side rocker cover. As I was turning it over by hand with the rocker cover and…[Read more]

Hello everyone,

Its funny how I found this page. I was on you tube and looked up This Week in Baseball videos. As I was watching one from the 80s the theme music in the intro reminded me of the Classic Roadsters VHS tape from 1988. I looked up Classic Roadsters in a search engine and found this site. It was cool and sad reading everything that…[Read more]

I got lucky. I took a scrap of my gel coated fiberglass to a local auto parts store and was able to match the color to to an off the shelf touch up bottle. Good for small chips.

If you have a scrap, you should be able to get any paint supplier to do a computerized match.

Re: the orange peel… I respectfully disagree that using a clay bar will…[Read more]

on the gelcoat – wouldn’t the literature from the manufacturer help there? On the orange peel – clay bar and some elbow grease.  Just think of it like you would if you had to sand off the clear coat. If you wanted to get there quicker you could wet sand with a 600 and then clay bar.

The Seattle company’s website says, if you can’t bring them an actual sample of the color that they can match, you can get a paint sample from a local paint store that matches your color, and they’ll match it.  That might not be a close enough match to re-gel coat a large area, but it will probably be close enough to touch up small chips, such as…[Read more]

Well, that was disappointing!  My trip to the local fiberglass supply company didn’t bear fruit.  That’s too bad.  Fiberglass is easy for DIYers to work with, if you can find a good color match for the gel coat.  I searched a sailing website and found a company in Seattle that claims they can color match gel coat.  I have heard there’s anot…[Read more]

I was faced with a similar issue but I didn’t attempt to color match gel coat since I had a fairly significant damage to fender.  Painted fender with color match to existing car, fender looked great but there was a significant difference in appearance between painted fender and gel coat car.  Eventually wound up painting entire car, epoxy paint w…[Read more]

Good luck! And please report back.

Mine only needs a few small chips touched up.  After I started this thread I did a google search for “color matched gelcoat” and it took me to a website for a company that’s only about 10 miles from my home that sells fiberglass related products.  They apparently sell a variety of colors of gel coat, and I’m going to drive my Duchess there, p…[Read more]

Not looking likely at this point. But I’ll keep hustling & maybe get lucky.

Steve
I was faced with the same issue with my Sabine. I bought a gel coat repair kit from a local marina but was warned that gel coat will age with time and it could be a challenge to colour match the original gel coat. I tried to use the kit but one has to be a bit of an artist to figure out how to blend the tints to produce the desired colour in…[Read more]