New clothes for an old gal.....Lola T202......
My Lola T202 came to me with new body panels fresh out of the mold in white gel-coat. A vinyl stripe was applied for looks.
I drove it one time, with my own number like this to test it out, this is the Lola at the VRG Watkins Glen event in September of 2017.
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All good except gel-coat does not hold up to the sun and the orange stripe with the white body is the well known Sasco Sports livery.
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For years I raced with the number 31, my son's birthday and green and blue, the Earth and Sky. So green and blue it shall be again.
The new paints are, I believe, acrylic urethanes. All compatible with one another but all must be applied within a certain time frame, often NOT longer than 12 hours. No sanding is required, the top coat partially dissolving the previous coat to adhere.
I wet sanded the gel-coat and masked off to be primed. I found a wonderful use for aluminum foil since some of the body work could not be removed without completely removing the front suspension. Not happinin.....
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I shot the blue first, let it dry an hour and masked off. I then shot 2 coats of the green.
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I then shot 2 coats of clear and let it all dry together overnight.
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I applied my numbers and graphics the next day...
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The final touch was the black stripe painted on the inside of the windscreen.
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My brother Todd in his Crossle and I were one of only about a dozen cars to make it out at the Jefferson 500 before the entire event was cancelled do to terrible weather conditions...
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Thanks for reading this far,
Allan
"Youth, talent, hard work, and enthusiasm are no match for old age and treachery."
