Painting the '84

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Painting the '84

Reply #15 – September 23, 2008, 05:53:02 PM

Thats going to be a schweet ride!

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Reply #16 – September 23, 2008, 06:30:34 PM

So does anyone know where I can get a rear bumper for this thing?

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Reply #17 – September 23, 2008, 07:22:55 PM

Quote from: 46Tbird;237090

So does anyone know where I can get a rear bumper for this thing?

Vinnie.... LOL

What all is wrong with the bumper that was on it? Just curious

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Reply #18 – September 23, 2008, 09:58:21 PM

That car is going to look sharp. That's the problem with car guys, just "good enough" is never good enough....

It's cool your sister and her friends are working on it. My daughter knicked up her Taurus DD and I made her help me fix it. That's a great way for them to really appreciate what goes into keeping these cars going.

My $.02 on the flames and the pink - Why not flames just like you had on it originally except in pink instead of blue? Pink pinstripe flames may look kind of cool.

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Reply #19 – September 29, 2008, 11:41:19 AM

Okay so the last time I left you, the car's nose was in primer and we still had a lot left to do.

The old man is pretty sneaky and had done a TON of work since I was able to get there last. So consider this a Part 2 that is really more like Part 5.

And one more thing, my camera was dead and my sister forgot her $$ DSLR that I gave her for Christmas... so you get to enjoy this installment in Samsung's finest 1.2MP glory.

So here we go...

Dad finished up all the remaining bodywork himself and had the car in a basic white basecoat to take a final look at the car in its color. At this point I'm pretty happy to see a solid-white Tbird that's really straight and ready for clearcoat. My sister was not having that. She had her mind set on custom paint and it was time to get started.

Tacking off the white..

Mixing the PURPLE...

Ouch. :hick:

Well if you ever wanted to know what your Fox would look like in a medium lavendar mica metallic, here you go.

The slightly pearlescent purple is going to be the outline of the flames. Yes my baby sister's first car is going to have Barbie pink flames. :burnout:

They take a little time to lay out, about two hours or so in getting them like we liked them and trimmed out.

Once they were laid on there, it was time to shoot the car in its final white coat. The color is '69 Camaro Ermine White. It's an off-white, you may have seen it on all those Indy Pace Car white/orange Camaros.

This is the part where I had to leave for a little bit. When I came back, the flames were taped up and on goes the first PINK.

Then the custom-blended dark pink that she came up with for the tips. I told her she was going to get mobbed by hundreds of little girls everywhere she goes.

Moment of truth. Let's see what the hell kind of damage we've done.

It looks pretty cool!!

Time to shine it up. Get to work!!

On goes the clear...

It looks pretty good in person. All the bad spots in the bodywork are immediately GONE when you have a set of bright pink flames.

And this is where we left it at 10 last night. So it's far from done but you can definitely see where it's going. We'll have a better camera next time so stay tuned...

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Reply #20 – September 29, 2008, 07:12:20 PM

Holy , that's cool looking.

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Reply #21 – September 29, 2008, 09:35:22 PM

I never imagined it would look that good,I really like it.

tell pops, he does nice work.

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Reply #22 – September 29, 2008, 09:43:22 PM

If he ever wants to do a Cougar just let me know... I m easy, I dont even need flames!

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Reply #23 – September 30, 2008, 12:10:26 AM

I never thought I would use a sentence like this. "That car, with pink flames, looks cool!!" There, I said it....

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Reply #24 – October 03, 2008, 04:35:43 AM

yeah, very nice!

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Reply #25 – October 04, 2008, 04:34:04 PM

looks awesome

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Reply #26 – October 04, 2008, 06:15:19 PM

Quote from: FLSTCI71;237764

I never thought I would use a sentence like this. "That car, with pink flames, looks cool!!" There, I said it....

I agree,
something I thought I would also never say.

Nope, still can't say it yet. I'll work on it, and get back to this thread.

LOL