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GALLERY 2

Building My GTX

Preparing the body for paint

Start with one tidy old GTX complete with original engine and trans, luckily for me the car was 100% complete and had never been Hot Rodded . The Car was imported to New Zealand from California about 2 years before I purchased it .

The first Job was to tear it apart down to a bare shell . then start the long job of preparing the body for paint . We removed all the paint using paint stripper and a 3 M disk .Once we had it bare the metal was preped and etch primed .

Many hours of dent removal , priming , sanding and blocking followed before I was sure that the body was near perfect .

At this stage we had decided on body coloured bumpers so they were sent out to be dipped , which removed the chrome plating . The rear bumper was then sent out to be straightened.

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