How about an update on my car?

"Bandit" (2bandit) 03/31/2014 at 17:45 • Filed to: Emma

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I started skimming block sanding the low spots in the body. Looks like I'm going to be busy for a couple weeks. It's as if someone used my T-top bar as a picnic table.

StoneCold > Bandit 03/31/2014 at 17:59

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Hail or gravel? Or just using it as a shelf when it's parked in the garage? Are you buying Bondo by the quart or the gallon?

Bandit > StoneCold 03/31/2014 at 18:02

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I want to assume someone back in the '80s used it in some terrible music video... I'm using this stuff called Evercoat Gold for the skim coats and I've got a quart. I've also got a quart of bondo that I've been using on some spots. If you need a gallon of bondo for one car you have a problem.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Bandit 03/31/2014 at 18:07

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I'm preparing to do some similar work on the side of a Land-Rover, but I have one of these to use:

An air file/sander. In the words of Nelson Muntz, "Ha ha".

Bandit > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/31/2014 at 18:09

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You bastard! It's alright, my trans am doesn't have nearly the amount of flat panel space as a Land-Rover has.

Takuro Spirit > Bandit 03/31/2014 at 18:09

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I have a theory....

Bandit > Takuro Spirit 03/31/2014 at 18:12

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I blame her. She shouldn't have kept throwing her clothing out the t-tops.

Takuro Spirit > Bandit 03/31/2014 at 18:14

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At least you didn't find any trunk dents.....

YET.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Bandit 03/31/2014 at 18:15

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So true. We actually used multiple quarts of bondo before deciding to back up and spend some more time (read, lots) getting the m@#%@&ing aluminum straighterer and ground most of it back out again. At the end of the day, we'll have maybe used a quart and a half. In fairness, a lot of that was bondo being put on and taken right back off again, as there were intricacies of filling the low spots my cousin didn't quite get.

Also, it is obligatory to point out that completely flat panels are easier to know if you've gotten right, and require no finesse with flat surface-working bondo tools. Advantage: still me.

Bandit > Takuro Spirit 03/31/2014 at 18:17

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This girl made me get a new hood :/

Takuro Spirit > Bandit 03/31/2014 at 18:20

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She came with mine.

No, she didn't. :(

Dunnik > Bandit 03/31/2014 at 20:31

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Yea, I'm guessing something along those lines too.