Dear Steve and all,
our HPE project is going very well thanks. I have just got "Lulu" back from Western Lancia in Exeter, where she has had the last visable signs of any rust removed, prior to a partial respray etc. I will post some pics next week after I return from some time off.
Yesterday I received back some 20 various pieces that have been blasted and powder coated in black again. Today I am off up to the platers at Weston-Super-Mare to retrieve some 100 small parts or so from being re passivated (zinc etch). Then the engine bay will start to look a bit more like it should be!
Next week, the black door and window trims will be finished, as they all shed black paint like winter leaves! Now the parts have been nitromors'd, brass burnished, etch primed, high build primed, then a decent satin black top coat applied. ( Ithink that is more prep than Lancia ever did when they were new!)
Oh just in case you were thinking "all that in a week", no, that's just how the timescales have worked out! By next week I will sitting amonst a pile of very shiny Lancia bits, with a big grin on my face!
Post some pics next week,
Chas and Anne,
(VXdeMAYO).
