1966 Barracuda Post-Paint Reassembly

The long and tedious job of reassembly is next on the to-do list for the 'Cuda. One of the first jobs was to put the windshield back in. I used a new rubber seal. Later in this post I installed the lock strip.

1966 Barracuda Emblem Paint Refurbishing

The front and rear Fish emblems used to have paint accenting the fish. It's getting quite thin. The top emblem goes on the front grill and the bottom piece goes between the rear glass and the trunk lid.

1966 Barracuda New Paint - Part 2 of 2

The dastardly deed is done. Painting is complete. Well, almost. The trunk lid still needs a lot of work. The rest of the car is painted though. It wasn't without problems. The main problem is that I'm not a good painter. I do it so rarely that I don't know what setting to use if I run into issues, like I did... I attribute it to my using a brand spankin' new Harbor Freight $12 HVLP paint gun and my lack of knowledge. It is what it is... There is massive orange peel and several runs in the paint. And flies. Lots of flies. If there were a million flies outside, there were at least half a million flies inside the closed garage. They must live in there.

Anyway, after doing the underside of the hood and door jambs outside, I installed the doors, then drove the car back into the garage to paint, you know, to get away from the flies....

1966 Barracuda New Paint - Part 1 of 2

I've put off doing the major bodywork on this car for a long, long time. A couple of previous posts from two months ago and had me doing the left front fender (fender)  and the left rear quarter panel (quarter panel) of the car. That work was actually done in July of 2018 and February of 2019, respectively, so I didn't get to the right side of the car until four years from the time I did the front fender. Four years to get all the bodywork done shows how much I dislike bodywork. But as I mentioned in a previous post, I wasn't about to hand over $15,000 to a body shop to do the work, and my philosophy is that if I am able to do the work on my old car, I should do it. After all, isn't that what us car guys do, work on our cars?

Well, the long, and sometimes painful, hours of bodywork have paid off. I've actually started painting the car. The Chrysler paint code is RR-1, Yellow (yup, plain ol' Yellow). It's what came on the car from the factory and I wanted to stick with the original color. Here's the first bit of paint on the inner door frames and gas cap:

1966 Barracuda Trunk Lid Repair - Part 1

Time to tackle the trunk lid rust. This trunk lid has less damage than the one that came with the car. Below is the driver's side corner partially complete.