U-Pol Raptor bedliner applied to the underbody of my Studebaker

[Charlie D]

This past weekend I finished stripping the undercarriage of my 1955 President State Sedan. It was buzzed with a DA with 80-grit and cleaned with wax & grease remover. SPI epoxy primer was applied Friday night and Saturday night the U-Pol Raptor bedliner with a Saginaw Green tint was applied. I like the texture and the final result looks pretty close to the original undercoating with the Saginaw Green paint over it.

Charlie D.

[52 Ragtop]

That's NICE! Are you going to do the inside of the floor too? Maybe up about 6 inches? That baby will never rust again!

Nice job

Jim

[swvalcon]

Charlie. Thats the only way to do the underside of a restoration. With the SPI and the bed liner it will way out last you. For the inside look at a product called lizard skin. Same thing Spi then undercoat and sound deader insulation. Said to drop floor heat by 20-30 degrees.

[Kurt]

That looks awesome! Great work!!

[BobPalma]

Beautiful work; just beautiful. BP

[PackardV8]

Agree, the bedliner is a serious way to go. I did the entire underside and inside of my custom Hawk with Rhino-liner. It's expensive, it's heavy, it's bulletproof. I'm never going to deal with rust on that body again.

jack vines

[Studedude]

Way to go, Charlie! Makin' progress!

[wdills]

That is beautiful work. I am planning the same for the bottom of my Hawk. Did you spray the U-Pol or roll it on? Just curious, why green?

Wayne

[Carl Purdy]

You spray it on with a special gun. Why Green it's the color of his car. Charlie is doing a good job. He has more patients than I have. I am like a retired doctor. No patients.

[s2dwagon]

Hey Charlie,

I used the exact same product on the under carriage of my wagon. Also did the inside of the spare tire-well, and wheel wells in the front fenders paying special attention to the firewall flange area that's prone to rusting. I was thinking of using their black product, but elected to go the tintable route, too.

I sprayed mine, the kit came with a gun that screws right onto the bottles of the product and you shoot it right out of the plastic bottles. Bottles are marked with a fill line so you can add the tint and hardener up to the line, shake, and shoot.

Looks great!

[woodysrods]

Well done Charlie!
It is nice to see a restoration being done the right way!
Great job!
Keep it up.
Good Roads
Brian & Sandi

[63t-cab]

Charlie,this will be one very well done resto.are the floors origional or did you replace any of it ?

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[gordr]

That is awesome work! If Studebaker had done them so well, they would have never rusted away. Of course, they would have cost $10,000 each in 1955, and nobody would have bought them, so there's that.

[Pat Dilling]

Absolutely beautiful work, looking forward to watching the progress. We really have a lot of great projects being shared on the forum right now. Very inspirational!

[alaipairod]

YUP......Like my mantra says.......If you are gonna get involved in a restoration project....Do it right....Don't look back....No regrets.
This is gonna be one President that will be loved, and honored.............