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Exterior Prep & Sticker Removal

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IT'S TIME! Buying Our First Former NASCAR Race Car! (Former Busch Series Monte Carlo)

What happens here

The stock car's exterior, specifically the side panels and around the roof, is prepared for new vinyl. This involves using a heat gun to carefully remove old racing stickers and vinyl wraps. The remaining residue is then cleaned off. The crew also notes that the roof was previously blue during Erik Almirola's time and black during Joey Logano's time, indicating multiple layers of paint/wrap over the years. The black portion of the roof reveals a slight raised area where old roof flaps were filled in for weight distribution, a common modification in NASCAR.

Goal: Prepare exterior body panels for new paint or vinyl application.

Tools and materials

  • Adhesive Remover — Cleaning residual adhesive after sticker removal
  • Heat Gun — Softening old stickers and vinyl for easier removal

What they say

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with this battery in the car and a relatively underwhelming yet critical job is taking the stickers off the side that is not new because we're going to have to sand all of this taking off the lame stickers first so you can practice preserving them yeah so I can like save the cool ones I will take the rear end cooler out so we can have that cleaned too not going as smoothly as it should be do it carefully let's see if I can just leave the three yes we rigged up a battery to see if it'll still light up and stuff y it does cool noticed something neat taking these tabs off bottom one said RB and I thought hm that probably means right bottom top one yep it says RT right top so you don't get them mixed up because I was thinking I was going to have to label these don't have to they already do that the forensic evidence of Joey lano's car lies under here where there is still orange vinyl under these tabs because Jeff never took the windshield out they just just peeled the orange off and this was there so that's it pretty cool these ones seem to be the same so they don't need to be marked oh yeah this will make clean stuff a lot easier especially getting these out so it says on here 2051 this board here is probably in one of those old uh back then that was like the red and white Rockwell Automation car 104 this from

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