VCCA Home Forums TECHNICAL - 1945 AND EARLIER 1929-1932 What to do about heavy pitting

Hi,
I have heavy pitting on the rear end and frame parts of my 30' and I would like to make it look the best it can. Painting just doesn't cover real well. What do some of you do to make it look better? Is there some sort of spray filler that I can paint this with and then go back and paint over? Any help would be appreciated. Also, what color was the wood work in the car?
Thanks

I sandblasted and then I primed the metal with an epoxy self etching primer. On flat areas I filled the pits with polyester finishing and blending putty. It is not so easy to get the putty smooth in difficult areas. Then sand that and if you expose the metal its a good idea to reprime with the epoxy self etching primer again. Then I used several coats of a high builded urethane. For a perfect job you should color sand it and you could still use the putty at any point to fill in remaining pits. An old credit card works wonderful for spreading the putty.
You could cut it to size if need be.

Hi 1930SportCoupe. Regarding wood color... If you search this forum for previous posts, I think you'll find that the wood in that era was painted gloss black.

Not really. The wood was coated with a perservative at the factory before the sheet metal was installed, and usually the wood had a greenish cast to it because of the type of perservative that was used (of course, this process would vary from factory to factory). Also, a lot of the wood (like the door wood and the wood used in the pillars for example) had overspray on it from when the sheet metal was painted on the body at the factory.

Thanks,
I noticed when I sanded some on the floor that it was green.