TC Freshen Up - WIP (pics!)
In Progress...
Been working on freshening her up a little bit. She needs it. First was removing the headlight covers and grille and giving those some needed attention. I decided I wanted to do something different with my grille to keep things fresh for a while (I can always change it back later on if I get tired of it). After a lot of Photoshopping various ideas for a while and showing it to various friends and family, I decided to black it out. I also needed to repaint the headlight housings again. Instead of using the flat black colour that is stock I wanted something different and much darker. I don't care about restoration correctness with this car, I just want it to look nice the way I like, and its fun to do something a little different. It doesn't have the factory paint on it anyway (much brighter white I still haven't identified). Going with a high contrast theme here with the dark window tint, bright white, and really dark blacks (what I've been working on since yesterday evening, had to get clear coat today). I went with a Toyota black. :D Yes, I put an import colour on it. :flip: It's quite dark, I love it!
Pics so far (I tried to show various angles for the grille - sorry the car is filthy other than the newly painted parts and that the woods around my place is so dark):
I also bought a new wrap for the steering wheel today (just like the other one only a little smaller so it fits tighter and is slightly lighter in colour and matches better). I did a better job on it this time than the one I did like 5 years ago. I took the old wrap off and put it on my truck's steering wheel. This is my favourite type of steering wheel grip, I hate how the steering wheel covers feel and scoot around sometimes if they don't fit perfect. This always stays put and feels great with awesome grip (and its cheap!). Here is the TC's new steering wheel wrap:
I also stuck a new battery in my little extra clock with interior and exterior thermometer I've had in there for ages. :D
So yep.. next thing on the list of stuff to do is fix the dent on the passenger front, and the broken molding on the front bumper, passenger side. I have another little ugly spot on the back bumper from where I backed into a pole years ago. :hick: Going to fill and fix those spots up nicely and then repaint the entire molding around the car the Toyota black. Would have started already but it's been too wet. As soon as I get a dry spell I'm knocking that task out.
After that I need to yank the window border (my mind went blank just now on what that is actually called..) off and repaint it again with some flat black, the reinstall and try to fasten it on there better this time.
Have some rust to take care of, or at least slow the progression of for now until I can do more extensive body work, on the very bottom edge of the passenger door. Stupid rust.. 
I also have a hole in my drivers seat. One of the owners before me burned a cigarette hole in it.. 
Probably just gonna stitch it up and not try anything fancy. At least it wrong rip bigger.
So yeah.. that's what I've been up to. I'll hit up trying to make the engine bay not look like once all the exterior stuff is "done" (for now, still needs a full paint sometime). Trying to get her looking more presentable. Hopefully I'm not doing too bad.
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