1953 Jowett Jupiter Race Car - Blue Team

Initial profiles on the nearside rear quarter panel completed and I'm pretty happy with the aperture gapping's now 



I then removed the nearside door from its hinges to allow access to prepare the door aperture / sill areas 



Which also made it easier to access the internal faces of the door for preparation / repairs 



Meanwhile the profiles on the nearside rear wing & shroud were being progressed 



Door prep completed on the internal faces 



Nearside rear wing profiles completed 



Likewise for the upper faces of the nearside rear shroud 



Just the final skimming of the lower section to complete this morning 



Next on the agenda is to sort the offside shroud, rear wing, quarter panel & door 



And a start has been made on cleaning up the alloy floor pan (Its difficult to leave other things in a scruffy state of appearance when its sat alongside fresh paint) - More soon 

He's  got that off to a fine art - eating - complaining that he's not been fed 5 minutes after being fed, sunbathing, sleeping, more sleeping, more eating, more complaining that he's not been fed, extra time napping, more sunbathing, where's my supper & is it time for bed yet that's all in between consistently reminding me that I'm not paying him enough attention  

Just some more profiling 



Nearly there I keep telling myself 



Areas reskimmed as required 



All profiles on the nearside are now complete 



Offside door removed to allow access to the apertures & inner door frame 



And a contact plate made up for either side of the bonnet - currently loose trial fitted 





This prevents paint damage when the bonnet is closed and resting against the keep on the A post - Onwards then 

Originally has a road car the bonnet had 2 sprung assisted stays - these are dead weight for racing and hence removed - the racing replacement has been 2 broom handles but these get in the way and are easily knocked out of place -You wouldn't want the weight of the bonnet landing on you  



I've made up a couple of brackets that allows the bonnet to be opened wider and with just one pole that allows better access to the engine bay - This is just mocked up - I'll reduce the brackets and I have a alloy support pole on order rather than the offcut of thin rail that I'm currently using 



The remaining panels on the offside received their final skim of fine finish 





Doing the sums on the filler applied - 2 x 3 litre tins - one of lightweight general filler and the other being fine finish filler plus the start of 2 second tins - a full tin weighs 3.250 kg x 2 = 6.5 kg plus the start on the new tins - in total I estimate 9kg of filler applied 



Now whilst a lot of readers might draw a long breath on that figure this is the dust extractor that I use with the abrasives for profiling the filler 



A full bag weighs 3kg and I've changed 2 bags 



That leaves 3kg of profiling filler on the car - pretty good for 70 year old body that was pretty well battered when it arrived at the workshop







Virtually all of the profiling is now complete 



And the masking up in advance of the primer being applied is in progress 

Great idea, though given your country of origin it seems like if you wait 15 minutes it turns into nature's parts washer.

Underside of the bonnet has been cleaned & sanded back 



And the repairs / seams have had sealer applied 



Primer next followed by a fresh coat of paint  

Polyester on the bodyshell has now been profiled back 





There were a number of open seams - these have all had seam sealer applied to them 



I'll now apply a general primer over the bodyshell to cover any bare metal along with the seam sealer 



More to follow later 

Primer undergoing its sanding / keying back 





The masking for the primer / polyester coats was then removed 



Then remasked - always good practice for the final paint being applied as the previous masking will have trapped debris & dust that will escape and land in the wet final coats as soon as they are applied 



Just about ready for the colour coat to be applied 



Just off to collect the paint that I ordered yesterday from the supplier 

Less than an hour is good going. It would probably take me about 4 hours to do that. Then another 4 hours to flat back the runs followed by another 2 hours to repaint where I had rubbed through.