My hat is off to guys who do the final body prep for painting. It is the part of building a car I hate the most. Hours and hours of blocking, filling, etc. aren't my idea of how to spend an exciting evening.

A good friend of mine is a top notch body man. A few years ago I built my Jeep truck and just wanted it to look presentable. So I stripped the body, primed it, filled the bad spots, primed some more, blocked, and generally spent the better part of a month getting it ready to shoot. My friend stopped by when I thought it was ready for paint, and said " you really aren't going to paint that yet, are you?" He pointed out a bzilliion flaws, and said if I painted it now it would look horrible.

So we wheeled it into his shop and spent another week of evenings DA-ing, filling, and priming some more, and I was amazed at the low and high spots he found. When it finally got shot I have to admit, it was now pretty straight.

Body work is one of those tasks best left to guys, like some on this forum, who have the eye and hands to do this stuff. I just don't have the patience and abilty to see those little flaws that it takes to do this kind of work.


Don