Grey Man

Even more fun was to be had at the beach  so the Malibu came back out to get the window channels blasted and another couple areas that had some rust bloom.







And then it sat for a little while until my buddy got tired of people touching it so we made a date to spray some primer on it. On this car we decided to use Sherwin Williams products, he has a ton of experience with them, so we mixed up some NP75 Direct To Metal primer, dumped it in a Harbor Freight HVLP gun and got to work. 

*Warning* Use an appropriate organic respirator when shooting paint and primer!*











And just like that it has the base to which we can start bodywork on the tub. Despite the cheap gun it sprayed primer with nary a problem. 

A day at the beach

Well, not really the beach, not really even close actually.

Back at it with the eternal project Malibu. This time I'm trying to eliminate all the rust so I can get it in primer and start the bodywork as to make headway towards the final resolution of paint.

After buying a siphon blaster on Amazon and two more bags of Black Diamond blasting material at Tractor Supply it's in the driveway again.







And for good measure I blasted a pair of seat sliders. Any progress is progress and I did find spot on the driver's quarter that needs to be cut out and replaced.

Vinyl is back!

When I was planning on paint I had considered a two tone paint scheme, something classic that fits the way a Road King should look. The biggest thing holding me back was the fact my painter was a factory refinisher, not a custom bike painter, this led me to a single color instead. After paint it seemed plain so I added Street Glide tank medallion. It looked better. It still lacked something though......

So following the current car scene I decided to give vinyl a look. 

*Disclaimer*
Vinyl is verboten to Harley rider's, it's like kryptonite, it's like putting Honda parts on your bike, it's etc, etc, etc. 

Me, I don't care, I do so many things just for my own entertainment that it doesn't matter to me if I would be ostracized from the clan. 

First thing was to head off to the interwebz to shop vinyl. Several site searches later I decided it should be a pearl white and the one I picked was an Avery vinyl in gloss pearl white.Pearl White
Along with a felt covered squeegee and some knifeless tape I was set. Either for greatness or a bundle of wadded up vinyl.

Here we go




Easiest part done! Didn't go bad, not perfect but the only experience I have is Clear Bra installs on several exotic cars, not the same though.

On to a bag.





Hmmmm, moving right along the tank was next, probably the toughest part, line laid out with pinstripe first then the knifeless tape seen in green


Knifeless tape



The only pic, I screwed up this side as I pulled the tape wrong and screwed up the line, it ended up in the trash


Ugh, first setback. Right on, let's do the left side first for the next trick!








Not too shabby. Next, a different line layout for the left side to flow with the bag better




Then back to the right side









After all that it was time to pull the front fender for a little more white. I was at the end of the vinyl so I decided to do the fender in two pieces, hiding the break line behind the fork leg.







Whipped up a paper template to try to recreate the same line for the other side






Back on




Then outside for the finally









After all that I ran out of vinyl to fix the right back so it matches the left line that I like better and I still need to make a design for the fairing.