Marcos Maniacs

Hi Jeff,
I painted the entire rear end red because the flat or satin black is 
hard to maintain and doesn't, in my opinion, add to the visual appeal.

Has everyone noticed that our membership in this group continues to 
slowly but surely climb?

Mike Denman
1966 Marcos 1800
Chassis # 4079


--- In MarcosManiacs@y..., "Jeff Caraway" <DovenWolf@c...> wrote:
> 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@y...] 
> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 10:23 PM
> To: MarcosManiacs@y...
> 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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