looking great! do you plan to re letter the car once some color is on it?

 

Yes. It will get the "Mouse Trap" name again, plus some other lettering. Something like Big John Mazmanian's Austin, but with my own design. Gold lettering with black border.

 

I have just the name for your car. How about "Austintatious", a play on the word ostentatious.
Ostentatious - Intended to attract notice and impress others. Pretentious, vulgar, or showy display.
Not that your car is any of those though. lol

 

Great minds think alike! That was actually one of the names I originally considered when I was thinking about what to put on the doors! Everybody is pretty used to seeing it as Mouse Trap around town, so I think I'll keep it.
Had considered adding "II" after the name, to play with people's heads who remembered it black. I also had some guys at various shows that told me long detailed stories about seeing it run back in the 60's at local strips, which we always got a chuckle out of. Figured the II would kinda play with their story some too.

 

Not much progress lately. Sometimes it seems like I'm moving backwards, instead of forwards. Started block sanding the whole body, but keep finding little imperfections that need addressing. So now I've got 6-7 new spots that had to get thin amounts of filler and more sanding.
Hopefully shoot more primer on the touchup spots tomorrow, then block it out once more. One of these days I'll get done, but no way to know when!

 

Shot the last of the primer today, so if this doesn't get it perfect, then I'm done. Don't want to buy more sandable and end up with a bunch leftover, so I'll let the painter shoot whatever more is needed after this.

 

yeah u should be fine after fixing those tiny imperfections,i hear you on buying more sandable primer that stuff aint cheap for the good stuff,i paid about 150 for gallon of 2k primer and quart of activator,good luck with ur austin i know its looking good please post picture before ur done,wanna see how it looks before u send it for paint,hows the block sanding going today hope better than yesterday,LOL.

 

Didn't do any sanding today. SHot more primer and left the heat to rrun. It's in the low 30's, so just letting it cook and I'll get back to blocking it tomorrow.
Yeah I could buy a quart since I've got reducer already, but even a quart is $35 with activator.

 

They were BSing you that bad. Aint that a b*tch. Love when people tell me stories that I know the real one or that they are plain lying. Specially the ones that start with. " I put a $50 bill on the dash" I bet I could grab it.

 

Yeah there was one guy at a big show last summer who had his entourage of 3-4 guys with him. We were sitting behind the cars and heard him telling this elaborate story about "Mouse Trap" and how he'd watched it running the local strips at Woodburn and PIR back in the late 60's and early 70's.
We sat there chuckling and I wasn't going to say anything, but then he came to where we were and asked who owned it, and why I'd decided to make it street legal. I finally told him I had owned it less than a year and had built it from a 100% stock Austin. Of course he was embarassed, so he went into this long line of BS of how he was right, and I must have copied the "original" Mouse Trap that he'd seen run.
I finally gave up and told him to stick to that story if it worked for him, but it wasn't working for us. His friends knew he was full of it from the looks on their faces, and just walked away and left him standing there. That's when my buddies started ribbing me about the Mouse Trap II thing.
There's been others that thought they'd seen it "in the old days", but most changed their minds when I told them I built it. I kinda enjoy those people, as it confirms I got it close if people think it looks close to something they remember from the 60's.