It was sitting on those stands, which he leveled out using the lasers in the machine. Made it very easy to reach all the adjusters!
Took the Racing Green Mini down to my partners Dan's shop near Tulsa for some repairs - when traveling to Blackhawk Farms last year in the race trailer something fell on the fender and dinged it pretty good, plus there were some other bad spots across the front end and chips in the front of the bonnet and front edges of the arches. Dan's been beavering away on it since last week and today got the color and clear on it - looking pretty spectacular already! He also peeled the cheezy vinyl stripes off the bonnet and painted new ones on for me. Of course, as I told him, now the rest of the car will be looking pretty dowdy by comparison! Guess I'll have to break out the Simonize.....
Man same AWESOME color! I should drive to see him to do my dings and dents!!! Great job! I mean AWESOME!
Unfortunately he only works on Classic Minis, and he's winding down his business and not taking on any new work. He still has 3 full body paint jobs to do yet, along with his own cars.....so he's busy till well into next year. This is a hobby job for him, he has a "real" full time job too! He squeezed me in as a favor.....
Went and got it today, 4 hours down, 4 hours back again but worth it to get such great work done, and done right. Paint match is off a little (not unexpected), so later in the year we'll do the rest of the car to match and replace the side stripes too as they're worn and faded.
I didn't post the pic that really shows it! it's OK, the rest of the car needs it anyhow, we'll do it this fall sometime.... We have a local Brit car show in about 3 weeks, I'll bet no one notices.....