Today was spent wet sanding the entire car with 220 grit sandpaper in order to find out what additional body work needed to be done and to get ready for the second coat of primer. The first coat was an attempt to fill some of the sanding scratches that were left from the 40 grit paper used to take down much of the existing paint. it worked great for the intended purpose, but also left many scratches in the remaining paint.
The roof looks pretty good, but had a lot of deep scratches from the low-grit sandpaper that I decided to use. The primer filled most of them on the first pass.
I even found a two dents on the inside of the passenger door that needed to be filled. I will be painting the inside of the car the same color as the outside so I'm not concerned with keeping the "wrinkle" look that was standard inside all Mustangs.
The passenger fender still had a low spot on it that needed to be filled. It'll receive another coat of primer to see it it needs another pass.
The next coat of primer that I'll be using is by Evercoat and is called Feather Fill. I was going to use Slick Sand, but apparently the paint store my dad went to didn't carry that particular one. Feather Fill is a high build primer that should fill a lot of the remaining scratches (although most are completely filled.) There still needs to be a little more body work that will be done on the rear panel and a couple of other places and then we'll shoot coat number two which will be wet sanded with a higher grit and then followed up with a third and final coat before paint.
Very Nice!
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