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Originally Posted by mrmustang

I'll respond to both of you at the same time seeing that I owned a production body shop in a past life and have had my hands on over two dozen Cobras, several one of a kind hand crafted automobiles, and enough production cars (stopping at model year 2012)of all shapes and sizes to fill your mall parking lot.

For basic priming and block sanding, the body should be progressively sanded to 220 grit (from a file finish that would be 80 grit, 180, grit, then 220 grit, then primed). For final paint, the car should be progressively sanded to 400-600 grit at the very least, depending on the color and depth of finish you want. For the last Cobra I painted (see "Saltshaker" for a reference here), his car was sanded (dry) progressively to 600 grit, then sealed, then sanded again at 600 grit, then shot in a beautiful base/clear in Jet Black............

In closing, you want to offer advice, make sure the person you ask has actual hands on experience and knows what they are talking about.


Bill S.

Thanks Bill for the advice and appreciate the info. I looked up the pictures and they look awesome!! Nice work. Got a question, would it be better to paint first, then do engine work/install or the other way around? I'm sure the painter would want to paint without motor and I sure the engine builder would want to do engine install before paint.

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