Rimington, Ken wrote:
> I have been doing some thinking. At times this is dangerous. Let me know
> what the group feels about this idea.
> I am restoring my 1956 Dodge Custom Royal. The trunk floor and passenger
> floor were replaced. I had the body sand blasted clean of rust. I want to
> do two things. One is to recover some body strength lost due to surface
> rust and some small pin holes and two is to prevent further rusting.
> After priming with Variprime (high Zinc etching primer), I think a coating
> inside floor and under body with Urethane bed liner is a good idea. This
> material has a high tensile strength, is not brittle and bonds well to
> primed surface. Rocks will not have a chance to knock it off. If you thin
> the material 10% to 15% it will go on fairly smooth and build to about 80
> mils in two coats.
> This is not factory original, but I think this will be a most durable, water
> proof, sound deadening approach.
> What do you folks think?
No fair, I had this question floating in my head for the last several
weeks.
I do plan on asking by bodyshop man about this very thing.
Ditto on the "what do you think" question.
Paul Holmgren
2 57 300-C's
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