An interesting use of contact paper

Anyone remember contact paper? you could get it in a bunch of colours or clear and use it on your school books so you didn't have the plain colours everyone else had...

Well anyway turns out the previous owner of the rear seat cowl liked the brand paradise but didn't have any of their stickers. So what did they do, cut out an ad from the paper and use contact paper to stick it down of course.


"they went to the trouble of cutting the paper around the letters edge... I thought this was a real sticker"


"I keep thinking of passiona when i see yellow letters :s"



I love finding out things like this, same with the AGIP stickers on "red" its just cool to find out little marks left by others on something I now own. Oh yeah if you know what "paradise" is based of the pictures seen above let me know. Better yet let me know or if if I find out ill let everyone know.

sounds good.

VT250F "Silver" part 14: prepping panels for paint

Greetings all, been a while I know but the project had to be put on the back burner for a bit. Anyway this post I'm basically going to show the first stage of how the panels were prepped for painting.

The first stage was pretty simple, the panels had any stickers removed, then where wiped down with some paint thinner to get rid of the sticky residue. They where then sanded down to give the etch primer a better surface to adhere too. After sanding another wipe down with paint thinners to remove dust and then they where given a light coating of primer.

Since pictures speak louder then words here they are, before and after style!












Primer revealed a couple of things that need to be fixed mainly a scratch on one side cover and a crack on the radiator cover mounting hole, both of which can be easily fixed.


"the scratch"



"the crack"

Next step will basically be the spray putty, paint and clear coat stage. Later.


"all ready to be painted the darkness that is black... was thinking about camouflage for a bit though"