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Proud new owner 1979 Viper

Restoring your Hydrostream or just giving it a small makeover? What better place than to show off your project. Big or small.
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Re: Proud new owner 1979 Viper

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Yea im just taking it all out and starting over. Did you ever meet the last owner?

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Showing its true color :)

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Man thats awesome it'll be well worth the effort.

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Re: Proud new owner 1979 Viper

Post: # 14372Post RussF »

265mercman wrote:did you use a heat gun to peel the stickers off? or how curious
a hair druer will work good too , used then to take decals off my motor , to change the reg decals, even to take decals off the boat trailer
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79ViperInProgress wrote:Yea im just taking it all out and starting over. Did you ever meet the last owner?

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No they had it for sale on craigs list for a while then brought it to the dealership on a Saturday.
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No ugly decals left anymore :) lots of hours with a heat gun and anything else that worked

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Looking good keep us posted

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Looking good. Now to get all that white paint off there. Keep them pictures coming! :D
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Il keep taking pics whenever i make progress, the white paint comes off but it is really slow going. Lots more hours ahead of me in that alone.

Off the paint topic, is there any book or how to video or something like that about recoring boats like these? I would like to know exactly what in getting in to. Ive read some of the forums on here and i just dont fully understand how to do it yet

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