I took a week of vacation to work full time on the bodywork. My hope was to get the body filled and in primer back to the rear quarter panels. So after a week how was the progress? Almost zero progress. I spent almost the entire time working on the front fender pieces that mount to the chassis just ahead of the doors. The good news is that I decided to stop and cut my losses and rethink these parts because the pieces are poorly formed and there is just no way forward using the pieces I received. If you … Continue reading Update 9/24/17

I worked on the Lancia bodywork yesterday. I used a chemical stripper on the passenger side door jamb and A/B-pillars but the original Lancia paint doesn’t want to come off even with stripper. It took four applications of heavy duty stripper to get down to the metal. I’ll strip the paint on the corresponding areas on the driver side but on the doors themselves I’ll just scuff the original paint and paint over it with urethane primer because the factory paint is really solid and I don’t want to deal with the mess. I feathered in the fiberglass I applied … Continue reading Update 9/5/2017