DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

Just going to do 'your thing' on my little Lambretta body parts which have a gazillion dings and dents starting tomorrow, will be using that very well worn block used on my 911 in 1989...and 20 years before that.
Not sure I cold cope with another device to do the same thing.

Keep going, we are all rooting for you and a great final result.

Jamie, your perseverance is inspirational, I wish I had it and the skill in such a constricting space.
I do however think I found out why you have this amazing drive. You must have been visiting the Raven Haven bird sanctuary just down the Sandhurst Road. It has just been busted for growing cocaine!!

Good luck with the build, I just wish I still lived round the corner to be able to follow your story more closely

Thanks Keith

Never heard of that raven place, but judging from the photo of the sign that google images brought up, it must have been pretty obvious to the police that the owners were on something.

Another spanner in the colour wheel...

I went to my local paint supplier and had some tester pots made of three colours I like. I say 'like'... they're not satin silver so I don't know anymore. Anyway, two are Porsche colours, and one is a Mercedes W111 colour - Mission Drift Beige, Mission Drift Yellow and Mission Drift Blue. The paint was PPG Deltron - a pricey, high-quality two-pack.

The Merc colour is pretty accurate (from memory), but the two Porsche colours are miles off. Possibly 50 years of chinese whispers.

Might go back with some RAL codes instead.

So when Bootsy said plans were brewing I thought I might see your shell at Stanford Hall, with an array of paint tins and brushes and a £10 a go to paint a square foot of the car any colour you liked.... Maybe it was too wet for the paint process to work ...


Getting 'correct' colours can be a big challenge.
On my 912 restoration I had a few colour samples of Slate Grey made from the databases and they were all wildly different, including one that I could not differentiate from black.

I eventually got an expensive test colour swatch from a specialist that my painter then colour matched.
Each slate grey car I see seems very different but I'm sure someone has one the correct colour [ I just don't know who ]

Keep up the good work.

Here are 100ml samples of two of the colours - Porsche Bahama Yellow, and Mercedes 903 Blue.



On researching the RAL / BS / HEX code of Bahama Yellow, I discovered that its inverse (ie. complimentary) colour is a cyan blue much like Merc 903. I know I give the impression of being all over the place, but I thought this (clearly) non-coincidence just went to prove entirely the opposite.

These were my final two colour choices. I'd love to do Sand Beige, but its just too muddy and depressing when set against the dark green environs of where I live (lots of Scots pines and other looming trees). The blue is beautiful, but every piece of clothing that I own is either grey or this tone of blue, which to me kind of says it really needs to be Bahama Yellow. I was talking about Bahama Yellow in this thread back nearly two years ago. I am evidently like some sort of tortuous broken record. Apologies.

jamie, in August 2013 wrote:I like Ivory, Slate and Aga, but I expect they will also suffer under the dark light of the tall tree canopy in the same way Sand Beige does. My favourite is Bahama Yellow - seems very period, tones well with the house...

I will blame my diversion on satin silver idea. I'm pretty heartbroken it didn't work but, as also already mentioned, it can be visited later on if I still have the energy.

I'm getting close to having everything ready for paint now. The bonnet has eaten an entire pot of filler and I wonder whether the gas struts will lift it when it's done. Man, that's funny... Actually, most of the filler ended up as dust on my garage floor. I do like block-sanding, but I seem to waste loads of material.







This bonnet really is a piece of crap. The one thing it has going for it is that its solid. But that's all. It's just a piece of shite.

To top it all, I got invaded by may bugs, some of which got stuck in the filler.



I was working down in East Sussex earlier in the week and managed to drop my wheels over to Nick Moss to be refurbed. Whilst I was there, Nick showed me a carbon bonnet that was being fitted to a customers car. It was beautiful - a proper autoclaved work of woven art with a really low resin content and a beautiful matte, raw finish. The whole thing appeared to be a totally accurate repro of a factory steel bonnet. It was unbelievably light, too.



Having spent the past few weeks battling with my crinkly old (heavy) steel lid, I was getting pretty psyched about buying one of these for myself. I love stealth lightweight, and I especially love crisp, light, unglossy carbon.

Then a colleague pointed out that the last place I should be trying to remove weight from my car is the front. He's right, of course. So I killed that idea, and saved myself some money, which I can spend on another pot of filler.

No progress this weekend - I am riding my bike around the Eifel mountains under the pretense of shooting a couple of cars racing at the Nurburgring. Lovely!

I like both colours. The blue in the pot looks like my finished colour - but mine in the pot looked a lot darker

I've got one of those bonnets and they are great.

Regards
Mike

^^^ imho a really nice colour and very period, but I like yellow cars (my 911 is Champagne yellow rather than Viper Green))

That yellow will also help on the body reflection side, the dark blue will show a lot of 'things', another reason why I like pale yellows...

After four months, I'm really hoping there will be no 'things'!

Bahama

danny wrote:
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.....only because I want you to paint it 'doom' blue!

911hillclimber wrote:the dark blue will show a lot of 'things', another reason why I like pale yellows...

I don't think there will be any 'things' to see after all the sanding he has done.