Marcos Maniacs

Turned out beautiful Mike!
What made you decide to go with red on the back as opposed to the
original black?
 
Jeff
#8052 1984 V6 GT
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Denman [mailto:marcos18001966@...] 
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 10:23 PM
To: MarcosManiacs@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [MarcosManiacs] Projects in process... the saga continues
 
Hi Maniacs,
I have posted two new and one old photo in the "Mike Denman's project 
album".  The first picture is the original picture of the rear end 
with the taillights removed.  Next to the original picture is a 
picture of the rear end completely painted. Notice any difference? The 
third picture is of the rear end from the side after painting.  The 
previous owner said he had painted the Marcos with the same red as a 
1997 Ford Thunderbird but research showed that none of the 1990's 
Thunderbirds had a color anywhere close to the actual color of the 
Marcos.  So I had the paint matched using one of the paint matching 
machines at the local Automobile paint vendors.  I was concerned 
because I had heard differing views concerning the ability of the 
machine to get the exact color match.  Well, the color they provide me 
is very close if not exact.  I had to take a flat panel (the trunk 
lid) down to the shop and they put this hand held scanner against the 
panel and pushed the button.  Then they mixed the paint to the formula 
determined by the scanner.  The scanning process took about 10 minutes 
with the majority of time being used to calibrate the machine.  The 
actual scanning took probably less than a minute. We painted the rear 
end on Saturday and it was raining and the wind was blowing which 
isn't the best time to be painting.  We painted the rear end inside 
the hanger on the car lift.  I took some 6 mil plastic and taped it to 
the car lift poles making a paint booth of sorts.  We opened the 
hanger door a crack and used an electric fan to suck the air out.  
When I primed the rear end I didn't do this and ended up with 
overspray on the car past the point where I had protected the car with 
paper which has given me another project that I didn't need i.e. 
removing the overspray.  Wednesday I will put the taillights back on.  
Overall I am please with the outcome of this project.  None of the 
project was particularly hard but you can see from the photos that 
there were a lot of steps.  I could have done the project in a lot 
less steps if I had wanted to put more fiberglass on at each point in 
the process.  I chose to limit the amount of fiberglass I applied each 
time so the project would evolve more gradually and wouldn't get out 
of control.  Took a lot longer but I never had the feeling that I 
didn't have control and knew precisely what the next step would be.  
There is something to be said for being able to "sleep at night".  By 
Friday I will post the final pictures of this project and will be off 
to other things.
Mike Denman
1966 Marcos 1800
Chassis # 4079






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