i had one of those suck in dents catch me out on the front panel of a rear engine skoda from the 70's, there was a support panel spot welded to the inside of the front panel, when you shut it with the lock in it pulled on the bar against the boot rubber, i never noticed it for days, when i saw it i though someone had bumped it parking, went to tap it out but when i opened the boot to get to the inside of the front panel the dent was gone, took a while to realise what was happening lol i eventually re located the support bar
Hey gunny, you're making more good progress, awesome ! You're inspiring others that are budget conscious to get in and have a go at this type of restoration / refinishing work. You're proving that you don't always need expensive tools or huge workshop to be successful, just the willingness to get in and give it a go. If you fail, learn from your mistakes and go again. Persistence overcomes Resistance !
When I did my '69 Roadrunner in Hemi Orange, it took 5 coats of base until it was solid with the sun gun. Of course I did one more plus a drop coat before the clear to make sure! LOL
5:04 what do think about just using lacquer thinner for cleanup? I’ve been ok with lacquer thinner with a final clean with aerosol ‘carburetor cleaner’ and letting it dry good before reassemble. I don’t know if that harms seals or plastic parts too bad, but I don’t spray that often and hasn’t affected anything yet.
Cars before the 80s were wavy as hell, and forget about gaps, let alone really old cars. I once helped restore a 55 F-100 you couldn't straighten the rear of the hood because it just buckled from use over the decades. Thanks for showing the world what it takes
Hell yea brother. I love orange on old cars. Suits most killa. Ha my holden gemini is standox straight orange tinter, solvent. With gold flake that only pops in the sun. The torana is going to look sick bro. 🤙 woop woop paint some shit
re cleaning the gun use carb cleaner -has all the good stuff recently removed that made gunwash work.......!! gunwash seems to be these days like recycled old shit thinners ,not with the cleaners that mae it worked....cleaned old guns with real gunwash years ago and it took ouut paint trapped in the gun that you'd forgotten youd even used ...had been using plain thinners to quick flush out -just shows it needs a good flush every now n then...keep up the great content gunny
I am loving this series on your Torana and I like the way you are sharing your thoughts and your approach to how and why you are tackling this huge job in your garage at home. There are certain things that I may have done differently, (sand blast or not to sand blast for example) but I cannot fault your thinking and will not criticise you for your decision making and take my hat off to you for sticking to your guns and sharing the whole project with us all. I am, however, disappointed that you will be taking this to a spray booth because it no longer becomes a home restoration and spray job. Most of us do not have this luxury and will persevere with issues of painting a car at home and I am sure that you could have shown us the way to go with your skill and experience as a spray painter and produced a quality job in your garage which would further inspire some of us amateur diy spray painters.
Looks bloody nice gunny, love the colour choice, my vy clubsport will be going VF spitfire green with a gold pearl over the top of it, I have already done the inside but the outside has to wait till I get a bigger workshop for more room as I am limited with less room then ur garage
Good stuff. I’m at a similar stage in my current resto but hit an issue, fisheyes. I’ve stripped to bare metal and think there must have been silicon on the spare bonnet and boot lid. It’s been a nightmare. Going to do a deep clean of the workshop, paint the walls and ceiling of the paint room and hopefully that should stop a lot of it. Never experienced anything like it before, I’d go to town cleaning and still get loads of holes. Thought it was my compressor at first but spraying the panels with aerosol still got the fisheyes.
So much fun watching a professional tackling this type of job in a home garage with the same stuff I would have to use ! You don't need a surgically clean paint booth to do great things.
Gunny you mentioned brake cleaner for gun cleaning, I use NAPA carburettor cleaner because its acetone & toluene & its cheap & doesn't curdle like brake cleaner
Looking really good there Gunny, I bet it's nice to get some colour on the car plus it's the perfect colour for the Torana. Great video as always mate and keep up the good work👍John UK
Sweet as 70's colour with a slight twist.. Excellent. Love my Panama green Tonner,even though it's faded/scratched with dents.......😆. It's real and i can't paint,so i watch those who can.
I've purchased 2 pro lites an a flag5 and a primer gun from Spray Guns Direct I live in the United States and they showed up in a few days I've ordered stuff from within the US and takes a few weeks to get go figure 😂
G'day Mr Gunman, WOW paint on the Torana. Awesome. Q. The Quartz clear and other paint that your getting from spray guns direct. Is there an Australian outlet as postage from the UK is a ball breaker. ✌️ Peace from Melbourne 3810
I don't think there's any Aussie distributors. Would be killa though. I imagine they'd get a few orders from aus cause of Gunman, i made a small (light) purchase a while ago can't remember the shipping cost but it did sting a little. What was your weight and shipping cost if you remember?
@cpzmelbs Hey Mr Gunman, I can't remember the shipping off hand but I didn't go through with the sale in the end it was way over my budget to buy and pay freight and now pay import tax if your spending over $1000. 😞
Would love to know how many hours this takes you (start to finish) I did a closed door spray on a mitsubishi 380 (100 hours - no panel beating) and a F250 XLT (300+ hours open door, Rust repairs and panel beating).
Im liking the colour. Looks like the factory Papaya. Relly era suitable as you say. And your bench looks like mine. Junk everywhere and space to a premium.
Love the vids mate. How do you get the prep so good that you don't need to do a sandable primer? Do you just keep sanding and running your finger over every surface to feel for any imperfections?
Hey Gunny loving the Torana build. Awesome to see what can be achieved at home. When stripping then applying epoxy in patches, is there any issue with getting overspray over previously epoxied areas seeing as though it will all get blocked prior to high build?
Neat color, looks similar to the LAMBO DIABLO pearl yellow from the mid 90's. COLOR looks similar to the FORD MUSTANG TRANS AM cars of the EARLY 1970's. Great call on the brake cleaner. BTW your love of the Prolight has inspired me to buy one and try it VS my 5500 SATA and my IWATA W400. I use the CHROMA CLEAR and will use chroma SNAP CLEAR with different catalysts to tailor to my climate. South Carolina.
Looks good mate and love the colour I know this is probably a daft question but why don't you use thinners to wash your gun out that's what I do but I'm not a professional painter by a long shot
Half an hour for the epoxy primer? How can that be? I wait 48 hours, use IR lights (BTW, exactly the lamps you use) for more than one hour and then let it harden under the sun for another two days. If I don't do that, epoxy adhesion is compromised. In the forums like SPI some people wait 15 days(!). The same with clear coat. Even high-end clearcoat has to wait a few weeks under the sun to harden. There are restoration painters that wait up to 90(!) days for the clear to harden before wet sanding. I think you have some special technique to undercatalize or overreduce so that cure times are in hours and not weeks.
I can't believe you are spraying in that lets say shed compared to the spray booth where you earn your living from ok watched the whole video now I get it😀
I’m loving the way the Torana turning out. Great color 🤝
i had one of those suck in dents catch me out on the front panel of a rear engine skoda from the 70's, there was a support panel spot welded to the inside of the front panel, when you shut it with the lock in it pulled on the bar against the boot rubber,
i never noticed it for days, when i saw it i though someone had bumped it parking, went to tap it out but when i opened the boot to get to the inside of the front panel the dent was gone, took a while to realise what was happening lol
i eventually re located the support bar
This content is great, this is how most ppl are working on their projects
Hey gunny, you're making more good progress, awesome ! You're inspiring others that are budget conscious to get in and have a go at this type of restoration / refinishing work. You're proving that you don't always need expensive tools or huge workshop to be successful, just the willingness to get in and give it a go. If you fail, learn from your mistakes and go again. Persistence overcomes Resistance !
When I did my '69 Roadrunner in Hemi Orange, it took 5 coats of base until it was solid with the sun gun. Of course I did one more plus a drop coat before the clear to make sure! LOL
Your chunning it out, l'm a restorer myself, the satisfaction you get from painting l think l'll be doing it till the day l die.......good job
5:04 what do think about just using lacquer thinner for cleanup? I’ve been ok with lacquer thinner with a final clean with aerosol ‘carburetor cleaner’ and letting it dry good before reassemble.
I don’t know if that harms seals or plastic parts too bad, but I don’t spray that often and hasn’t affected anything yet.
Transparentness, I like it... nice job!
Cars before the 80s were wavy as hell, and forget about gaps, let alone really old cars. I once helped restore a 55 F-100 you couldn't straighten the rear of the hood because it just buckled from use over the decades. Thanks for showing the world what it takes
Hell yea brother. I love orange on old cars. Suits most killa. Ha my holden gemini is standox straight orange tinter, solvent. With gold flake that only pops in the sun. The torana is going to look sick bro. 🤙 woop woop paint some shit
re cleaning the gun use carb cleaner -has all the good stuff recently removed that made gunwash work.......!! gunwash seems to be these days like recycled old shit thinners ,not with the cleaners that mae it worked....cleaned old guns with real gunwash years ago and it took ouut paint trapped in the gun that you'd forgotten youd even used ...had been using plain thinners to quick flush out -just shows it needs a good flush every now n then...keep up the great content gunny
I am loving this series on your Torana and I like the way you are sharing your thoughts and your approach to how and why you are tackling this huge job in your garage at home. There are certain things that I may have done differently, (sand blast or not to sand blast for example) but I cannot fault your thinking and will not criticise you for your decision making and take my hat off to you for sticking to your guns and sharing the whole project with us all. I am, however, disappointed that you will be taking this to a spray booth because it no longer becomes a home restoration and spray job. Most of us do not have this luxury and will persevere with issues of painting a car at home and I am sure that you could have shown us the way to go with your skill and experience as a spray painter and produced a quality job in your garage which would further inspire some of us amateur diy spray painters.
Good job Gunney …. Good to see you happy and not listening to the D’heads 👍👍👍
That’s gonna be awesome gunny I bloody love that colour…cool … nice to see you so stoked doing it 🤘👍
Starting to look good Gunny really looking forward to seeing it in the booth
I’ve been watching the build from the start and have enjoyed watching whole series 👌
Great work buddy. Coming along great. Keep motivating us
Nice colour mate perfect choice for the LH
Nice work Gunman, pleased to see the colour going on.
Thanks for posting mate 👍.
Looks bloody nice gunny, love the colour choice, my vy clubsport will be going VF spitfire green with a gold pearl over the top of it, I have already done the inside but the outside has to wait till I get a bigger workshop for more room as I am limited with less room then ur garage
That looks mint af! Nothing better than getting some colour on. Would be nice to see it in the sun.
Looking great mate! Love your honesty your not looking for a show car finish! I fully understand but it looks fantastic to this old Torana fan!
That looks great gunman! You've made great progress
Good stuff. I’m at a similar stage in my current resto but hit an issue, fisheyes. I’ve stripped to bare metal and think there must have been silicon on the spare bonnet and boot lid. It’s been a nightmare. Going to do a deep clean of the workshop, paint the walls and ceiling of the paint room and hopefully that should stop a lot of it. Never experienced anything like it before, I’d go to town cleaning and still get loads of holes. Thought it was my compressor at first but spraying the panels with aerosol still got the fisheyes.
I was going to say the same thing. I thought it would be oil in the air lines.
So much fun watching a professional tackling this type of job in a home garage with the same stuff I would have to use ! You don't need a surgically clean paint booth to do great things.
I don't know if you have a harbor freight where you are but they sell the 3m gun cleaner for 8.99 a can. Much cheaper then the paint store.
Scared me a minute on that yellow but the pearl orange is great! Breathed a sigh of relief…
nice work in tight space, waiting for the next video on this car
Gunny you mentioned brake cleaner for gun cleaning, I use NAPA carburettor cleaner because its acetone & toluene & its cheap & doesn't curdle like brake cleaner
Absolutely the right colour for the car ,looks awesome bro👍
Looking really good there Gunny, I bet it's nice to get some colour on the car plus it's the perfect colour for the Torana. Great video as always mate and keep up the good work👍John UK
Looking great ... getting excited and its not even my car
Looking good bro,,want to start on my vr ss soon,hard to find a good painter in the south west though.
Awesome choice on the colour.
Sweet as 70's colour with a slight twist.. Excellent. Love my Panama green Tonner,even though it's faded/scratched with dents.......😆. It's real and i can't paint,so i watch those who can.
Still a blast watching you work ! looking good !
I've purchased 2 pro lites an a flag5 and a primer gun from Spray Guns Direct I live in the United States and they showed up in a few days I've ordered stuff from within the US and takes a few weeks to get go figure 😂
Looking great mate!
Nice 👍 , not far to go now!!!
Great colour selection 👌
G'day Mr Gunman,
WOW paint on the Torana. Awesome.
Q. The Quartz clear and other paint that your getting from spray guns direct.
Is there an Australian outlet as postage from the UK is a ball breaker.
✌️ Peace from Melbourne 3810
I don't think there's any Aussie distributors. Would be killa though. I imagine they'd get a few orders from aus cause of Gunman, i made a small (light) purchase a while ago can't remember the shipping cost but it did sting a little. What was your weight and shipping cost if you remember?
@cpzmelbs
Hey Mr Gunman,
I can't remember the shipping off hand but I didn't go through with the sale in the end it was way over my budget to buy and pay freight and now pay import tax if your spending over $1000. 😞
Gunny this is looking awesome! Sorry i am just catching up on your series been away for a bit but im back!
Wow great work as always love it.
Being born in the 60s and seeing Toranas from the 70s that colour is perfect,
Colour Gunny Colour and a great colour it is. Nice work Gunny. Keep it coming.
Would love to know how many hours this takes you (start to finish) I did a closed door spray on a mitsubishi 380 (100 hours - no panel beating) and a F250 XLT (300+ hours open door, Rust repairs and panel beating).
I would love to know too, I should have taken note.
Nice work as always mate!
Really dig the Color, dude. 😊
Looking great! How’s the charcoal filtration working? Looking to do the same so I don’t piss off the neighbors
I'd say it removes 70-80% of the odour, definitely enough to keep neighbours happy.
Love it great to see❤
Looks great!. What’s with the top and bottom left hand corners on the boot?.
I don't know what you mean. They're no different than the other side to me.
@@TheGunmanChannel Looks like there’s some stuff under the paint.
Loving the color!
Wow it’s been years since I’ve seen your videos.. man I’ve missed out on some good content
Im liking the colour. Looks like the factory Papaya. Relly era suitable as you say. And your bench looks like mine. Junk everywhere and space to a premium.
Loving this job Gunny. Bit of a bus mans holiday. Lol but it's coming on brilliantly mate should really stand out it the sun once she's finished
Love the vids mate. How do you get the prep so good that you don't need to do a sandable primer? Do you just keep sanding and running your finger over every surface to feel for any imperfections?
Good work gunman!
Looking awesome gunny. What colour is it? Kind of reminds me of a Ford Focus/Fiesta colour
love your work bro
Hey Gunny loving the Torana build. Awesome to see what can be achieved at home. When stripping then applying epoxy in patches, is there any issue with getting overspray over previously epoxied areas seeing as though it will all get blocked prior to high build?
Looking unreal gunny. Absolutely loving these torry vids!
Hi mate,iv only just started watching your channel,a mate put me onto it as im rebuilding a HR wagon.
Neat color, looks similar to the LAMBO DIABLO pearl yellow from the mid 90's. COLOR looks similar to the FORD MUSTANG TRANS AM cars of the EARLY 1970's.
Great call on the brake cleaner.
BTW your love of the Prolight has inspired me to buy one and try it VS my 5500 SATA and my IWATA W400. I use the CHROMA CLEAR and will use chroma SNAP CLEAR with different catalysts to tailor to my climate. South Carolina.
Nice one!
Looks good mate and love the colour I know this is probably a daft question but why don't you use thinners to wash your gun out that's what I do but I'm not a professional painter by a long shot
What tape did u use on the edges when painting to stop you from getting hard edges ?
Love that colour!
Love it man
The colour looks really good. Are you doing the Torana blackouts?
Originally I was going to but I reckon being an SL it'll look better one colour
@@HnegbztjbxwqV I think will look out of place on an SL.
Lookin great mate
All that matters is if your happy with it !
Great Gunny Great.
Half an hour for the epoxy primer? How can that be? I wait 48 hours, use IR lights (BTW, exactly the lamps you use) for more than one hour and then let it harden under the sun for another two days. If I don't do that, epoxy adhesion is compromised. In the forums like SPI some people wait 15 days(!). The same with clear coat. Even high-end clearcoat has to wait a few weeks under the sun to harden. There are restoration painters that wait up to 90(!) days for the clear to harden before wet sanding. I think you have some special technique to undercatalize or overreduce so that cure times are in hours and not weeks.
great content🤜🤛
Looks like Ford Furi orange🏴
You my friend are correct 💯☺️
happy days
I actually prefer lacquer thinner over the 3M gun cleaner, seems to work just as good for me.
Very nice Color 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
Awesome
I can't believe you are spraying in that lets say shed compared to the spray booth where you earn your living from ok watched the whole video now I get it😀
Are you still at work pal, not seen any videos
Nice colour, Orangefury
It's quite amazing how much it changes in different lights
Fun fact: it's actually pronounced Trarna.
Any flanny wearin, winnie blue smokin bogan will confirm that.
me encanta como haces tu trabajo Sr pistolero , yo he tomado maneras de trabajar como las que haces , Saludos de Venezuela 😊
Vc e cara
Keep at it looks good will come up pretty nice