Atom's 2 door Amazon wagon Project:Headquarters

[Miroteknik]

yes to the time-lapse please

[gnmzl]

So excited, can't even hide it.

[Atom]

It’s a rental home. With a truncated timeline and rain in the foreseeable future forecast (just say NO to alliteration) I’m borrowing some shop space through the weekend.



If I can remember, I’ll set up the GoPro and do some time lapse stuff

[gnmzl]

Great progress.
If not white, if not black and not chrome, then it MUST be .. COPPER??? What do I win for guessing? A photoshopped photoshoot of our cars together?

[Atom]

Off to his new home

[Atom]

i imagine the white against the chrome making the car seem "older" than other colors, but I love white cars and am very anxious to see how this turns out.

May, or may not help that I’m planning on painting all the chrome. Not white, and not black either. Maybe that’ll be a surprise.

[Miroteknik]

i imagine the white against the chrome making the car seem "older" than other colors, but I love white cars and am very anxious to see how this turns out.

[gnmzl]

As I said on r3v:
Love the color choice! I secretly wanted you to pick white, because I love white cars with red interior.
Super excited to see the results!

[Atom]

No new car pics really.



Decision made.

[Miroteknik]

looks great man

[Atom]

Mental note, don’t leave the gel coat tip in the primer gun. Good thing this needs to be knocked back a bunch still.



I only had it roughed in with 36g, but the weather this week is spotty, so I needed primer on it today. Pretty much the whole quarter has at least a skim of filler on it, but I didn’t have to “sculpt” anything, so I’m good with it. Still need to mess with the transition between the upper radius and the flat, but I think it was that way before as well. Not bad for another “driveway shop” project.

[Atom]

So much more still to do. Enough for tonight though. I was feeling really overwhelmed by the scope of what I have to do to this thing early today and was a bit discouraged, but I forced myself to go out and start moving metal again. I’m glad I did. At least I made some progress. Tomorrow’s another day.

Nothing cool is easy and nothing easy is cool.

[DawsonLiri]

Congrats for the newest member!

[Atom]

Thanks guys. We just know that our family can offer him a great chance going forward, so we’ll do what we do. Pretty sure I’m gonna grab some beer on my way home from work tomorrow and keep tugging on the metal until it’s not appropriate for me to be making noise anymore. I need to have primer on it by the end of the weekend whether it’s got filler on it or not. Supposed to rain pretty much all of next week.

[scotto]

Nice work on the damage repairs so far, and a big congrats on adopting your foster son. I know what a challenge fostering can be, we did that for 10 years before retiring from it.