Little Steps relating to paint- BillyBob

In between stages of work on the Red Lady's fuel tank (see below), I've also been doing little things pertaining to BillyBob. Yesterday and today, it was painting the rocker cover and sideplates, and preparing one of the doors for paint.

The stripping of old paint was already done on the engine parts back in December when I got them hot-tanked, which is basically a bath in boiling degreaser. It's not freindly to your skin, but great for engine parts, which basically come back brand-new looking. The paint is Chevy Orange engine enamel, and the engine will be getting a two-tone paintjob, with the block, sump and head being flat black and the rocker cover and sideplates being a nice contrasty bright orange. So far so good:

It's important to recognise the importance of these sorts of jobs- the ones where a substantial, satisfying result is achieved in a relatively short time. Stuff likes this gives me a boost with the shitty jobs that have less obvious reward, like the 60 or so hours I spent on my back under the Red Lady removing old paint, sound deadener, and accumulated road crud.

The other work I did today was sanding one of the doors for the truck, and later tonight I'll probably stick some red-oxide primer inside it. After that, it'll be ready to hose some primer onto it in preparation for the top coat, which I'm thinking will be orange, though a slightly lighter orange than the engine parts above. That decision is not finalised yet though.

Cost: $30.14 for engine paint, and a few bucks worth of sanding pads
Time spent: 1/2 an hour on the engine parts, and about 45 mins on the door