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[wachuko]

DON'T DO IT MAN! DON'T DO IT!

Just drive it and enjoy it. And post stories about your drives with photos of the car in the different sites... that will drive us nuts since our cars sit in the garage waiting to be finished and makes us with envy.


There, that works?

[DoctorPDR]

I relay appreciate seeing all the detailed/in-depth work you guys are doing on your spiders. Unfortunately trying to get things just right is one of the reasons I ended up getting my spider. I've had a 76 early bronco that I kept tearing down more and more and eventually got in over my head. and then it just sorta sat there in my garage. Last summer I wanted my "fun" convertible to spin around in while I contemplated over my bronco, and that's when I came across the spiders. So I have to keep telling myself "just leave well enough alone". New rims and tires, couple parts here and there that's it. So if I ever start posting pictures of getting ready for some major overhauling, someone please step up and say "DON'T DO IT". I would like to keep driving it and don't have room for a 3rd topless toy. Sometimes too much inspiration can be a bad thing.
Brad.E

But they are such easy, not to mention fun cars to work on. I always look forward to working on my Spider.

[1979FiatSpider]

Well there is that tiny, tiny little spot of rust wanting to "pop" through the wheel well. Maybe I should grab the air sander, grind it down, little etch primer, fill, more primer, paint....... Stop! "DON'T DO IT!" Sometimes I just get carried away with my projects. I waited to find/buy a nice one so I could enjoy the top down drive. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the beer in hand time working on them in the garage. Just not going to try and overdo myself, at least not with the spider yet. Maybe when the bronco gets back on the road.

[Fiat88]

lol, it took me about a week to get all that crap out. There is an easier way, BUT you have to do it in sub-zero temperatures. If it's freezing out, all you have to do is beat on that stuff with a rubber mallet and it breaks off in big chunks. However, I did not want to freeze my ass off so I did it this way. It was therapeutic and provided me a lot of planning and solitude. But once completed, I simply took my air gun with a metal wheel to obtain that shiny steel look and then I coated all the metal with Rust Bullet. It turned out SO NICE and was well worth the work! No type of rust will ever form again on that treated metal.

I just took a screw driver and hammer and broke that factory coating up. Comes up much easier when underneath is a little rusty.