Bonnet (Hood) Rivets on a 289 Sebring????

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Re: Bonnet (Hood) Rivets on a 289 Sebring????

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Hi Kev, obviously it’s down to you but cutting down the nail without damaging the rivet head might be a bit tricky. Mine appear to have been pulled tight as the nails finish down inside the rivet head.
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Re: Bonnet (Hood) Rivets on a 289 Sebring????

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if you paint ther bonnet and rivets with the rivets fitted, you'd be surprisded at how much definition you would lose, plus, there's the possibilty of the paint cracking around the rivets with body movement, paint shrinkage etc. As paint cures, it does shrink slightly ;-). I left mine in raw aluminium and riveted them to the bonnet once the paint had cured sufficiently, so as not to "pull down" into the paint too much. I felt that the raw aluminium rivets added an amount of detail the the bonnet, which I liked. If you wanted painted rivets, I'd be inclined to paint the bonnet, let it cure and then fit the rivets and carefully paint the rivet heads by hand afterwards. If the car's metallic, I would mask out each rivet head once fitted and airbrush the basecoat and clear on lightly to the rivet head, as brushing a metallic with a paintbrush looks a bit gash, as the metallic tends to look blotchy.
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Re: Bonnet (Hood) Rivets on a 289 Sebring????

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After the whole prepaint process (sanding, filler, sanding, filler, ......... primer, sanding,pri...........), just before the first layer of yellow, I placed the rivets. They
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became a light coat of epoxy primer (because of the aluminium) by hand. I have never had a problem for the last 4 years and approx. 9.000 km.
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Re: Bonnet (Hood) Rivets on a 289 Sebring????

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Re: Bonnet (Hood) Rivets on a 289 Sebring????

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I put the rivets in after the primer was flatted, dusted a bit of etch onto them and then the top colour. If they lose a bit of definition, so be it, these are meant to be old war horses and were never pretty :)
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