{"id":33,"date":"2021-05-24T03:38:32","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T03:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nostalgiadragracers.com\/pettytribute\/?page_id=33"},"modified":"2021-11-27T15:27:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T15:27:02","slug":"body-work","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nostalgiadragracers.com\/pettytribute\/body-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Body Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I had Screamin’ Woody<\/a>, my wagon drag car, wrapped as a Woody in 2018. I reassembled to race starting in 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I was so pleased with how it came out that I scheduled to bring the Sedan in to be wrapped. Years ago, I had considered painting the car Petty Blue, but changed my mind because the car was a Sedan and Petty’s car was a Hardtop. I had decided to paint it in a Southwestern theme, and use as an in inexpensive driver. I then did the interior in Indian Blankets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After scheduling for a wrap, I planned to have it also wrapped as a Woody, but green. However, the thought of doing it as a Petty car kept coming back. I seesawed for weeks, then decided I’d like for the car to look like The King’s first car. However I wanted it to look as if it had been parked in back of the shop for 60 years – bleached by the Sun. I then started collecting photos of the car from the 60s, the sponsor decals and some examples (the coffee cans) of degrees\/patterns of rust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    With that information, photos of the car and measurements, we can up with a car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    All of the trim was taken the car, some rust repairs performed around the back window, a lot of sanding and hitting with two dozen cans of primer. Then the car was taken to the paint shop and hit with 2 gallons of dark self-etching high-build primer and then a gallon of light of the same type of primer to somewhat act as a guide coat for sanding. Another couple days of wet sanding with 400 grit – and she was ready to go in the trailer for the trip to Indiana. I couldn’t get my big rig into the wrapper’s property, so we switched to a smaller trailer at my bud’s car dealership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    A couple weeks later I picked the car up and brought back to my shop in Texas to start the reassembly – after painting the engine bay in Petty Blue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    I had Screamin’ Woody, my wagon drag car, wrapped as a Woody in 2018. I reassembled to race starting in 2019. I was so pleased with how it came out that I scheduled to bring the Sedan in to be wrapped. Years ago, I had considered painting the car Petty Blue, but changed my mind […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-33","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nostalgiadragracers.com\/pettytribute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nostalgiadragracers.com\/pettytribute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nostalgiadragracers.com\/pettytribute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nostalgiadragracers.com\/pettytribute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nostalgiadragracers.com\/pettytribute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nostalgiadragracers.com\/pettytribute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"https:\/\/www.nostalgiadragracers.com\/pettytribute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nostalgiadragracers.com\/pettytribute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}