{"id":723,"date":"2008-06-30T12:40:58","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T19:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/?p=723"},"modified":"2013-07-28T18:55:12","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T01:55:12","slug":"falcon-build-update-3-the-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/falcon-build-update-3-the-roof\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcon Build Update #3- The Roof"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mr_social_sharing_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 --><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.myrideisme.com%2FBlog%2Ffalcon-build-update-3-the-roof%2F&amp;media=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.myrideisme.com%2FBlog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2008%2F06%2Fimg_9167.JPG&amp;description=Falcon+Build+Update+%233-+The+Roof\" class=\"pin-it-button\" count-layout=\"none\" rel=\"lightbox[723]\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/images\/PinExt.png\" title=\"Pin It\" \/><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><fb:share-button type=\"button_count\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/falcon-build-update-3-the-roof\/\"><\/fb:share-button><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/falcon-build-update-3-the-roof\/\" data-via=\"myrideisme\" data-text=\"Falcon Build Update #3- The Roof\"><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-annotation=\"none\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/falcon-build-update-3-the-roof\/\"><\/div><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a class=\"mr_social_share_email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Falcon Build Update #3- The Roof&amp;body=https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/falcon-build-update-3-the-roof\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-sharing-toolkit\/images\/icons_small\/email.png\" class=\"nopin\" alt=\"Email\" title=\"Email\"\/><span class=\"mr_small_icon\">Email<\/span><\/a><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"linksalpha_button linksalpha_link\" href=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/social\/mobile\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/falcon-build-update-3-the-roof\/\" data-text=\"Falcon Build Update #3- The Roof\" data-desc=\"I think it was Earl Sheib who said, \"Body work is glamorous!\" He was lying! Ok, I made that up. Body work's dirty and you have to use a bunch of tools that make noise. I like that part! But, it takes so much time. It's hard work. This week, I enlisted another friend, Joe Nagy. He came over to hit\" data-image=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/img_9167.JPG\" data-button=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/images\/social_share_button.png\" alt=\"Share\" class=\"linksalpha_image\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/scripts\/loader_iconbox.js?v=2.4\"><\/script><\/span><\/div><p><a title=\"63 Falcon Wagon Project Build - Roof before\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/img_9167.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[723]\"><img title=\"63 Falcon Wagon Project Build - Roof before\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/img_9167.JPG\" alt=\"63 Falcon Wagon Project Build - Roof before\" width=\"350\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" \/><\/a>I think it was Earl Sheib who said, &#8220;Body work is glamorous!&#8221; He was lying! Ok, I made that up. Body work&#8217;s dirty and you have to use a bunch of tools that make noise. I like that part! But, it takes so much time. It&#8217;s hard work. This week, I enlisted another friend, Joe Nagy. He came over to hit the roof of the wagon, and that we did. (for a good laugh, check out the Earl Scheib home page and the endorsement from Danny Boneduce)<\/p>\n<p>On the left, you can see where we started. For some reason, I really like wagons, but I guess that was before I wanted to paint one! The roofs, as they&#8217;re known, are LONG. I&#8217;m pretty lucky that the roof&#8217;s straight and basically trouble free except for more of that black primer filled with that strange oil the previous owner used to keep it sorta-shiny. (I already said, please don&#8217;t do that&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Joe and I fired up the wire wheel and DA sander only to find that sucked. <a title=\"pikesan hard at it with Paint stripper: Falcon Wagon project\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/img_9168.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[723]\"><img title=\"pikesan hard at it with Paint stripper: Falcon Wagon project\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/img_9168.thumbnail.JPG\" alt=\"pikesan hard at it with Paint stripper: Falcon Wagon project\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" \/><\/a>From there I decided to go back to the paint stripper to ease the pain some. Does anyone know of a stripper that actually works? I&#8217;m sure it doesn&#8217;t help that it&#8217;s 90+ in the garage, but still, as much as I put on, you&#8217;d think some more of this ratty primer would come off. Not so. Even the &#8220;Aircraft&#8221; quality stripper I had wasn&#8217;t that hard core. I want the paint to peel off in one big sheet! But, I also want my kids to have clean air and clean water. I bet in the old days, paint stripper got it done! Here&#8217;s what the paint stripper did. Any paint that <em>does<\/em> peel off is still paint I don&#8217;t have to force off.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The roof, almost done sanding - 63 Falcon Wagon project\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/img_9171.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[723]\"><img title=\"The roof, almost done sanding - 63 Falcon Wagon project\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/img_9171.thumbnail.JPG\" alt=\"The roof, almost done sanding - 63 Falcon Wagon project\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" \/><\/a>After throwing almost every wire from my low-buck Harbor Freight wire wheel, this is what was left. The original color of the car was burgundy and a cool one at that. Once I hit color, bare metal or the grey\/yellow primer, I moved on to the next spot. I wasn&#8217;t trying to get all bare metal, just get all that oil off there. Looking back, I think it would have been worth it to have the entire car blasted. I would have done that, but I didn&#8217;t want to find any major surprises. Small ones, ok, but from what I&#8217;ve seen on Overhauln&#8217;, some stones should be left unturned. Speaking of Overhaulin&#8217;, check out this &#8220;Overhaulin&#8217; game&#8221;. You can customize a car. I think Chip probably threw up a little bit when he saw it.<a title=\"Abstract 63 Falcon art\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/img_9175.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[723]\"><img title=\"Abstract 63 Falcon art\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/img_9175.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Abstract 63 Falcon art\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the wire wheel, I broke out the DA sander with 80 grit paper. It&#8217;s amazing how much better that works when it&#8217;s not trying to gum up with the old black paint. It didn&#8217;t take long at all, then I was ready for some primer. You can see in the picture above there was only 1 spot with any filler. The DA smoothed that out nicely so I can put a little more on.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"63 Falcon Long Roof.. all gray!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/img_9180.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[723]\"><img title=\"63 Falcon Long Roof.. all gray!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/img_9180.thumbnail.JPG\" alt=\"63 Falcon Long Roof.. all gray!\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" \/><\/a>3 cans of primer later, the roof finally looked like we had done something! The solid gray after looking at the spotted mess of paint, steel and primer was a great change. I used a long board for the first time to do the first bit of sanding. Or maybe I should say, I tried using it. Wanted: Dude who can teach me how to use one of those without undoing all work from the previous step. I did get some advice tonight, but I&#8217;ll have to wait to give it a try. You can see that one spot with filler. I learned how much hardener is too much tonight too. That stuff kicked so fast I threw half of it away. Time to wrap it up for the night\/week.<a title=\"Rear door handles removed and smoothed over 1963 Falcon wagon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/img_9182.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[723]\"><img title=\"Rear door handles removed and smoothed over 1963 Falcon wagon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/img_9182.thumbnail.JPG\" alt=\"Rear door handles removed and smoothed over 1963 Falcon wagon\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Passenger door, before 1963 Falcon wagon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/img_9183.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[723]\"><img title=\"Passenger door, before 1963 Falcon wagon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/img_9183.thumbnail.JPG\" alt=\"Passenger door, before 1963 Falcon wagon\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just to catch you up completely, I also got most of the passenger doors stripped and ready for the DA and primer treatment. Then, here&#8217;s a picture of where the rear door handles have been filled in. That area&#8217;s smoothing out nicely to get ready for <a title=\"Show car quality primer\" href=\"http:\/\/squeegskustoms.com\/index\/products.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Squeeg&#8217;s filling primer<\/a>. I learned from Doug why his primer&#8217;s the best and I&#8217;ll blog it all soon.<\/p>\n<p>Much more later, we&#8217;re just getting started. Stay tuned. Any comments on the progress?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to my current sponsors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Heat and sound insulation from <a title=\"A great deal on auto insulation\" href=\"http:\/\/lobucrod.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Auto Insulation<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A great new steering wheel, a stock one from Cesar at <a title=\"Pre 1972 parts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vintiqueinc.com\" target=\"_blank\">Vintique Inc.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Doug Jerger and <a title=\"Hot Rods and Custom Paint\" href=\"http:\/\/squeegskustoms.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Squeeg&#8217;s Kustoms<\/a> for the <a title=\"The best filling primer\" href=\"http:\/\/squeegskustoms.com\/index\/products.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Epoxy Primer Filler<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More sponsor opportunities available!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Every story I&#8217;ve written about this build can be found here:\u00a0<a title=\"Restore and Hot Rod my 1963 Ford Falcon Wagon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/tag\/63-ford-falcon-project\/\" target=\"_blank\">1963 Ford Falcon Wagon Build<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"mr_social_sharing_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 --><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.myrideisme.com%2FBlog%2Ffalcon-build-update-3-the-roof%2F&amp;media=&amp;description=Falcon+Build+Update+%233-+The+Roof\" class=\"pin-it-button\" count-layout=\"none\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/images\/PinExt.png\" title=\"Pin It\" \/><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><fb:share-button type=\"button_count\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/falcon-build-update-3-the-roof\/\"><\/fb:share-button><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/falcon-build-update-3-the-roof\/\" data-via=\"myrideisme\" data-text=\"Falcon Build Update #3- The Roof\"><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-annotation=\"none\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/falcon-build-update-3-the-roof\/\"><\/div><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a class=\"mr_social_share_email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Falcon Build Update #3- The Roof&amp;body=https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/falcon-build-update-3-the-roof\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-sharing-toolkit\/images\/icons_small\/email.png\" class=\"nopin\" alt=\"Email\" title=\"Email\"\/><span class=\"mr_small_icon\">Email<\/span><\/a><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"linksalpha_button linksalpha_link\" href=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/social\/mobile\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/falcon-build-update-3-the-roof\/\" data-text=\"Falcon Build Update #3- The Roof\" data-desc=\"I think it was Earl Sheib who said, \"Body work is glamorous!\" He was lying! Ok, I made that up. Body work's dirty and you have to use a bunch of tools that make noise. I like that part! But, it takes so much time. It's hard work. This week, I enlisted another friend, Joe Nagy. He came over to hit\" data-image=\"\" data-button=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/images\/social_share_button.png\" alt=\"Share\" class=\"linksalpha_image\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/scripts\/loader_iconbox.js?v=2.4\"><\/script><\/span><\/div><p>Email I think it was Earl Sheib who said, &#8220;Body work is glamorous!&#8221; He was lying! Ok, I made that up. Body work&#8217;s dirty and you have to use a bunch of tools that make noise. I like that part! But, it takes so much time. It&#8217;s hard work. 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