Woohoo!! Reassembly starts!

[Asbo]

I wondered what happened to Andy’s pop, it seemed to appeard then vanish, I think everyone was hoping he would return to racing and was doing some modifications!

I was hoping to see it on track with a blower and was sure I saw a pic of this going together ... or were they building another? its an ace build any way for sure

[Blackpopracing]

Andy refuses to race ever again - partly a political decision.

As such his first version of it was too much and he hated driving it, it's now de-tuned and aimed (a bit) more for road use, and he is far happier driving it.

He's concentrating more on his son getting into drag racing now - who also has a Pop

[Blackpopracing]

Think it thought 8 of the same back view was more than enough!

This site is so utter crap - in my actual post there is only one photo???? Even trying to edit it to remove the repeat photos was a total ball ache.

[Asbo]

I was hoping to see it on track with a blower and was sure I saw a pic of this going together ... or were they building another? its an ace build any way for sure

I dont know them but seen his son racing at pod other week and seems to be gettin a hold of it for sure.. wonder how far they planning to take it

[tom.marg]

Yeah I’ve seen his son in the pop Ruby a few times.

plenty of pictures are posted mate don’t stress it lol

[MisteR Tee]

Only 7

miss counted my fingers!

[Blackpopracing]

Well it's been a while since I posted - car has mostly been in hibernation since last post though I did take it out to a local meet on Boxing day;



Today I finally bit the bullet and attacked the roof with the DA - jeez I had laid some paint on that - even with 40 grit on the DA it took ages to break through to the filler. The reason for this is a couple of cracks were in the paint for years but I ignored them, but this summer a new one appeared along the gutter line so this forced me to have to do something about it.



I was expecting cracks in the filler under the paint, but it was not as bad as I expected, a couple of hairline ones that I ground out, but it seems the cracks were mainly in the paint. 10 years of abuse and quite a few wheelstands on the strip (and street ) have taken their toll.

Roof getting baked under the infra red lamp;



Baking the new skims of filler with the infra red lamp;

[Blackpopracing]

Happy new year for tonight everyone,

Had the heating on all day in the garage while I did other things, so it was fairly warm later in the day. I did some more filler work and then masked the car up.



First coats of epoxy primer on to see if the filler is the right shape - probably not so far but I'll see tomorrow.

[Blackpopracing]

primer got blocked back today and the first coat of gloss has been laid on. It's not masked properly as this is just to see if it all looks straight, there is one tiny flat spot I need to address that I can see.

[Blackpopracing]

Small flat spot now filled,



And 2 coats of paint applied, now unmasked for a good wash before I flat the roof paint properly for the last 2 coats to be properly blended with fade out thinners. Paint looks a bit rough as I had the air pressure too low (20psi - trying to avoid overspray).

[Blackpopracing]

Back to roof paint. I had painted it last week and left it to harden off, after a bit of sanding it needed one more coat to fill in a few dimples from me not having the air pressure high enough on the previous coats.

This was done yesterday so time to flat it off properly.



Some time later and it now looks like this.







Mostly happy with it, a couple of areas need another bit of wet sanding to remove sanding marks but it's nearly there.

[Blackpopracing]

New project arrived at Blackpop Towers, in for final fettling and fitting a few bits that are not right.

[Asbo]

Great work Mark, and the new project looks very nice indeed too

[jsf55]

Excellent work mate

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[Blackpopracing]

Thanks John, I'll start a new thread for Andy's pop.

[jsf55]

Great to have any posts on here

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