Getting ready for Santo 2014!

Macy made this sign for the rally.  Cool, huh? 

 

Got the emblems on!

Marc put the Siesta emblems on today.  We had one metal emblem for the door, and two decals-one for the front and one for the back.  What do you think? I think it actually looks better in person.  It really stands out and brings everything together.

 

 

 We had to put the little bitty wheels back on so we could get the trailer back under the breezeway and into the backyard.

 

 Little tree got in the way on this one :)

 

I know the emblem was really for Siesta's pickup top-type campers, but I don't care!   

Back to Joe's we go...

Well, Sparky is back at Joe's hoping to get the paint fixed. I hope it works! 

 

 

Tiny Bubbles...Do NOT make me happy!

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AAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHH!

 

I went out to put on my new Siesta decals and discovered that the white paint on my trailer has about a million little bubbles.  NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I guess I'll be calling Joe tomorrow.  I hope he makes good.  This really sucks.   Here's a picture of the bubbles.  It's hard to see on the white paint.

 

 

Feeling blue about my moons...

Well, the moons are nasty.  They started out with a layer of paint (and who know what underneath), and the undersides are gross and rusty. Marc had already tried stripping one of them, but it looked like it might have rust coming up through the back.  I called around to see what it would cost to get them cleaned up and re-chromed, and it was not good.  Since I didn't want to pay $100 a pop ( ! ) I decided to try and rescue them.  I started by trying steel wool on the one Marc already stripped, and it helped only minimally.  The moon looked and felt like it still  had some paint on it, so I put paint stripper on both of them and waited.  After redoing this a few times, they are looking better.  I ran out of stripper, so that's it for tonight.   I'm going to keep trying later on tomorrow and see how it goes.

This is how they looked after Marc stripped one of them a little

 

 

And after I worked on them a bit last night...

 Still not pretty, but better.  The one on the bottom still needs several coats of stripper.

Shining up the eyebrows and putting them back on...

Just back from the paint shop!

Just got the Siesta back from the paint shop. Joe Pruneda at Precision Auto Body in Spring did a great job!  I really like it - it's a bit lemony (my choice) but that's okay.  The painter was able to copy the original stripe - YAY!  We still need to do the wheels and do something about the moons.  I don't think the ones I see online will fit.  I need ones that are really deep.  I have the originals, but I'll need to have them blasted and re-chromed.  Is that expensive?  I guess I'll find out! 

Here it is without the eyebrows

 

 

 

These are the products Joe Pruneda and his team used on the Siesta