Paint yer wagon

Short on words in this update, but just to let the world know I'm repainting the Fleetwood Brougham.  This was one of those things where it had a few stone chips and other little marks on the paint but by the time I'd gotten down to rubbing each one out I had work on every panel so I thought I might as well paint the whole thing.

So I've spent two days rubbing down, filling, stoppering, puttying and yet more rubbing.  Its getting there now, I guess I'm about half done.  The car has one repaint on the factory paint and I'm rubbing most of that right out as it has some bad "orange peel" effect in the finish.

The photo above should show the orange peel in all its gory glory.  Getting back down to perfectly smooth is the big deal here so that when the new paint goes on it will look sharp and shiny.  The new colour is going to be a slightly lighter shade of blue in a slightly pearlescent finish.  This will be topped off with a clear lacquer rather than the paint on there now which is a single stage paint.