Roller Paint Job Diary

My wagon is about 5 feet wide X 16 feet long. The sides are about 3 X 16 each side, so with a quart (litre), thinned to 1:1, that would cover 200 sq ft per coat.

5 X 16 = 80 sq. ft.
2 sides @ 3 X 16 = 48 X 2 = 96 sq. ft.

The tailgate has a painted surface of 2 X 5 = 10 sq. ft.

Total Square Feet to Paint:= 186 sq.ft.

3 coats = 3 quarts at $40.50 = $121.50
1 gal of Interlux 333 thinners at $20 = $20.00
2 quarts of Pre-Kote Primer at $30 each = $60.00
$221.50
Plus sand paper, discs, rollers, etc, taxes.

So around $250 in canuk bucks, and 6 days of elbow grease. I can dig it.

 

Normi's at it again!~ :banana:Can't wait!
It's like waiting for the new season of your favorite show to begin.

 

It's been a long cold winter in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in his Igloo.

 

Que tal viejo? Always nice to hear from you.

Its gonna be a fun summer again!

Stef even gave me more upload space, so lots of pics will be comin' up.

 

Its so cold up here that its gonna go down to -48C tonite! There is cabin fever, and then igloo fever. Cabin fever I can take. But now, I'm hitting my limits. The 3rd Coldest winter here in the last 100 years! All the Brass Monkeys ran away, singing soprano!

 

You went to a Gran Torino? Wow! A Ford man! Far out!

Are you cruising the junkyards out there in Tejas?!!! If you see any 6 cylinder Fox-bodies with a standard tranny, let me know? Fairmont, Zephyr, Mustang, Capri, Granada, Monarch, from 1978 to 1982.

I need a clutch pedal setup, a 4-speed (SROD) manual transmission, and bellhousing with the floor shifter. I can't seem to find much more than automatics around here, but I read that they were common in the Southern US.

Mine's automatic with the floor console and shifter, so the rest is a piece of cake. 6 cylinder Fox-bodies with the floor shifter manual trans were 4 speeds, as were the 4 cylinder Fairmonts and Zephyrs. Some even came with rearend I want, but I think I can change the gears in mine, once the snow melts to confirm what I think. The Mexican Fairmont with a V8 had a Dana 30 rearend, instead of the Ford rearend. Mine has a filler plug on the rear cover, and the ID tag is says its a 3.07:1 ratio. The Ford Fairmonts up here, had no filler plug, and a 3.08:1 ratio. Dana still offers the gearset I want (3.27 or 3.45), and with the Trac-Loc (positrac) setup.

My rear end might even be an 8" rearend, instead of the Ford 7.5 rear end, but I never took pics when I was under there a few years ago.

 

A perfect parts car

So I took the Greyhound out to where my 1982 Zephyr awaited, at this guy's yard:

http://www.callingallcars.ca/index.htm

The trip could have been stopped by our Highway authourities, but by the time we left (45 minutes late), they got a go-ahead, Drifting snow, swirling snow, 1/2 mile visibility. Awesome bus driver, and we were hauling one of their cargo trailers!

The owner ploughed out a path to drive us down to 3 rows of Ford, Mercury, Lincolns, about 40 cars wide, each. Snow up to the door handles. Well, I wasn't gonna waste a trip.

As we're driving down, I spot this green Fox that wasn't on his site in pics, but on his inventory page. (never checked it )

A real nice one, all good glass, good body parts, complete with the wire wheel discs (I'll have 2 sets!), Seats looked good too. And it ran when he parked there, who knows when. And the hood ornament!





The 1982 is rough, up close.






By this time I has snow up to my waist, in my boots, in my socks.

Good thing Andy didn't come along. The frustration of being surounded by this vehicle harem of classics and all that snow between us.

Hard on a guy's psyche, you know.

Well he took me to one of his garages. A restored 1957 Sunliner! he's at the point of installing the trim. Continental kit and all!

And his man-cave is wall-to-wall car models from back in the 50s and current. He bought some nice mahogany pie shelving from a restaurant renovator, with the mirrored backs, and mounted them throughout the rec-room.

My '78 comes home next Friday. 7 days to move the snow to park her for a month. Gettin' exciting!

 

Thank God and Greyhound Norm's gone.
A guy that goes junkyard hunting in snow that deep has a problem....or problems! Way ta go Stormin Normin.

 

Hey! The good thing about that snow and cold, is that the parts I want ain't goin' nowhere!

Cold and blustering as it was, the owner was a real gent, good sense of humor, and fair. It was a treat doing business with him.

 

I bought my 55 Chevy wagon in below zero weather with snow up past the rockers. Neither the buyer or seller dickers much when it's like that outside.
At least you didn't have to worry about snakes or skeeters.

 

And you had the place to yourself!

 

And there were reasons for that! He's probably still picking snow out of his butt crack!

 

One picks sand out of these places not snow...silly. Snow isn't there nearly long enough for picking.

 

Yup, all ways complains it's toooooooo cold to work on the inside of the house because it's winter, but has no problem shoveling snow for 5 hours in a wreaker to get to a car ....that's covered in snow and frozen to then have to shovel himself out again.

That a boy Norm!