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As a young man of forty I bought my first MGA and did a frame on restoration. I enjoyed this project and decided that when I retire I wanted to keep busy and these cars would be a good hobby. I started to look for the cars and ended up with eighteen cars and five parts cars when I retired.<\/p>\n
I have been retired for about six years and I got rid of most of the parts cars and am down to thirteen cars. I was told one time by a person who owned a large restoration shop that you can not make money working on you own cars. You can, however, make money restoring and working on other people\u2019s cars. Well I am not ready to start another business so I am working and playing on my cars. I haven’t made much money but so far I haven’t lost any.<\/p>\n
Getting back to the title to this article. The last two MGAs that I have restored were under coated and tarred extensively. One of them looked like the man must have been a roofer. He had put tar on everywhere he could and it looked like he put it on with a putty knife. He even coated inside the doors, under the bonnet, boot, fenders and frame – everywhere he could get the tar to stick.<\/p>\n
Here is a tip. When taking tar off with a torch and scraper, wear heavy gloves because when that tar melts and falls on your hands it burns into the skin.<\/p>\n
The car I am working on now the guy even put tar under the hood. On the inner fenders, the X pan and the heater shelf. What a mess this stuff is to get off. My method is a torch with a scraper and after that I use paint thinner and steel wool. You cannot spend all this time and money on a car and not have it looking good everywhere.<\/p>\n
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My latest attempt to cover this up is to paint under the car with truck bed liner tinted with the color of the paint that you are going to paint the car. It looks good and gives the panels some strength and should keep it from getting stone chips.<\/p>\n
In defense of the previous owner who tarred and undercoated the car, I guess he was trying to stop the rust that snow and road salt can cause. I am sure that this car will never see those things again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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