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Ad for "Duplicolor" paint featuring Mk1 Ford Escort. From Custom Car magazine August 72





Engine bay. One day I will paint to match!





The Amazon gets ready for painting. Here it's back from the shapers, but has yet to be primered or blocked.

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• Delta Autos Body shop. Proprietor Martin Wood, as experienced with Alfas and Suds in particular as the Bianco boys. From accident to restoration Martin can wield a paint gun and the torch to repair most things PROPERLY just like Lance at Romance of Rust, just focused on Italian stuff.

Running report entries

• Some decisions made Headed up to Romance of Rust yesterday to check on progress on the Amazon, and by the time I'd got there realized I'd made a few decisions about colour and so on. One of the things holding me back, was that I'd spent so many years driving it around as...
• Decision made: Midnight blue Quick post. Got the sprayouts back and we're all agreed. We're going for the midnight blue. It's a pearl paint, so in bad light looks black, in bright light looks metallic blue (not too much red either). Tasty.
• Countdown to painting Went to Romance of Rust yesterday for my usual weekly visit, and found that Paint Day is approaching fast. Lance reckons there's a chance the Amazon might even be ready to go off for to the paint shop at the end of next week. Personally, I think that's a tad...
• Quick update: wheels painted Over the past week we've been passing a few bits to the paint-shop -- dashboard, door cappings... and wheels. The wheels are a set of 4 1/2 J's, half an inch wider than the ones that were on there, and needed a little prep before painting the colour same as...
• More sexy paint Quick excuse for some photos of more bits painted in the midnight blue pearl I've gone for for the body. This time it's the heater unit, which is normally painted black, but as the engine bay is going to be satin black, I thought the heater, which extends into that...
• Gone for pre-painting I've been tied up with lots of stuff this week, including some behind the scenes work on the site, and having a look at the state of my Camaro's 350 (summary: it needs a full rebuild), so I've not had much time to post about the Amazon. And there's a...
• Ready for painting (well, nearly) After weeks and weeks and weeks, the Amazon is back from the shapers where it was getting prepped for painting. All the body has been smoothed, all the panels prepped, and there's a surfacr primer to both protect it and to allow it to be rubbed down so the painters...
• Painted at last! Got a call this morning from Lance as I was on my way there to say the paintshop were going to start painting the body shell this afternoon. Sure, enough when I got there, the Amazon was pretty much ready for painting to begin, all primered up and ready. I'd...
• Rebuild: real progress Think the photos say it all. The bonnet, boot and wings are back from the paintshop and look great. However good they look in the photos, they look twice as good in real life, and the guys at Paintforce in Ealing have done a terrific job. There are some nice...