Just some more Pics from yesterday

I dropped this on accident while I was on my last coat of clear so I'll have to repaint it later

 

looks pretty cool... sucks you dropped that trim. I like the black door handles and locks

Are you going all black on the grills? i think that will look good i tried to picture them black w green but i think all black will look better

what about the bumpers? black or green ? I vote green but its your car

 

I'm doing the grills half matte black and half gloss black imagine the original is silver with matte black stripe inside in my earlier Pic and I'm basically painting the silver gloss and leaving the stripe matte and for now I'm leaving the bumpers chrome and maybe later I'll decide if I want to paint them black but to be honest I don't think I'm gonna do green
​​​​. So the only thing that will be chrome / polished is the wheels and bumpers. For now that's my plan

 

yeah the matte black next to the gloss black looks really nice IMO, I have that combo on one of my vehicles and several people have commented on it.

I wondered about chrome on the bumpers , but the color is a modern color and not much has chrome bumpers these days

i was thinking like the rally 350 paint them body color....

 

Hm that does look pretty cool! You definitely have me thinking for sure

 

How would you prep the chrome if you do decide to paint it? Is there an acid etch or something to scuff the chrome? Hard to rechrome easier to paint maybe after you see it all together... I do like the rallye gecko idea



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I'm going to be honest I don't know if there is something special to do for painting chrome but if i do it'll be like I did for the door handles which is sand with either 180 or 220 to let the primer bite in and use bulldog adhesion promoter then prime than wet sand than paint I've actually done this before and it held up really well no chipping or flaking

 

Ive got a 71-2 rear bumper needs rechrome or good for paint $50 plus ship. If your rear bumper is nice you could save it. Only problem is im in mass.

 

Does it have exhaust cutouts?

 

I spent the whole day preparing the car and wow does it take long!! It looks like I'll be painting it either tomorrow or maybe I can ask my boss to take Monday off. She's getti'n there!

This is my first time using a inflatable paint booth so I hope it turns out OK. My other booth isn't big enough to fit a whole car it's for painting small golf cart bodys

 

That booth is so cool. I've never seen one, didn't even know they existed..........

 

That is cool. You are very talented keep up the good work.

Keith

 

No the bumper does not have cutouts its a standard style bumper

 

Yeah when I first heard of them it was only 2 months ago and I was surprised they existed as well but really happy cause that means I don't have to paint in the open to bugs and wind and dust and all sorts of crap

 

Thanks Keith

 

OK thank you for letting me know. that doesn't sound like a bad deal but I promised myself I would buy a rear bumper with cutouts if I ever bought another one and so it's just not worth it for me and probably the most relevant truth is I'm trying to spend as minimal as possible since I had just recently bought a bunch of parts for my car.

 

Getting closer!!

I'm so glad I went with the green for the wing

 

BAD idea painting in the dark



I'm gonna check on it in the morning and if I had to guess I'd probably say I'll be buffing runs out all Saturday

 

Well? The end result is very pleasant the bad news? two drips on the lower quarter and and sill.

Imo not that bad considering I was painting in pitch black darkness..






The booth did a wonderful job at keeping the bugs out as there were swarms of bugs last night trying to get in the booth and I only got one bug in the entire car wich I just plucked out wich tweezers and I'll buff that and the runs later. It came out spectacular

 

Nice! Looks awesome

 

So I did some research into painting chrome and talked with my local paint supply store and found out your supposed to sand the chrome and use self etching primer/to bare metal primer so that is what im doing

 

It's going to look awesome!!

 

Thanks guys I really think it will look good

 

Yeah the paint is looking really good, your doing a great job thanks for documenting it on here. Im sure all the guys whose cars have been held captive at the body shop are like damn thats quick.

i just met a guy the other day who traded w a body shop some tractor parts for paint work. 6 months later he was picking up his tractor parts to paint himself. He said everytime he went to the shop his parts got moved further from the work area, his last visit found the parts to be painted in the rafters, thats when he pulled them.


seeing the bumpers all sanded down gave me another thought. An aluminum color, vs chrome or green or black. I think that would look good, but my first vote is green, then al, thenchrome, then red primer , then black lol.

 

Yeah that is really sad I know exactly what your talking about. my brother took his monte carlo to a painter and he said he would have it done in two weeks to a month and a month later my brother went to him and he said give me another month so 3 or 4 months go by and he hadn't even touched the car so my brother took it back and had my other brother paint it for him and the worst part is my brother had done all the body work and just wanted him to spray it!! I like the red but I thought about white and decided it looks really good so I cleared it it came out really well. I think the white against the green will look killer!!! 🤙

 

Ha ha just kidding 😜


I had just rinsed the bumpers off with the hose in the other Pic and it looked like it was painted so I figured I'd make a joke out of it

 

I decided to paint the bumpers green and I think it'll look so cool when it's done
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To RetroRanger your wish comes true.
I got a lot of other people saying I should do green and I thought about it and I really like it too

 

You had me going on the White bumpers looking killer,... til I scrolled down Lol. Awesome looking job I am happy for you, and so glad you are having such fun with it.

 

Thanks Keith

 

Lol got me too

the white might not look to bad but the green will be awesome

 

 

Reminds me of "Black Chrome" very cool.

 

That is pretty cool.
I Installed the rear bumper today and it looks great Im dying to install the front fenders but I have to spend some time working on the engine bay there's some rust up where the battery goes and I'll probably spend Saturday on that and than I'm going on vacay next week so I won't be working on the car and will continue the assembly process when I get back and of course paint the hood, that is my dirty diaper I don't want to deal with because it's fiberglass and it seems like a bad/cheap reproduction it doesn't exactly line up correctly and I'm terrible at using body filler for that I'm only good with small dents so yeah I just hope it will work out OK and I won't need/want to buy another hood.In the meantime I love the black bolts for the bumpers!!

 

The grills look mint i really like the matte/ gloss look together especially on those 442 grills

the aftermarket all fiber hoods are like the originals an OK at best fit unless you spend some time w them.

the nicer OAI hoods fit better and can cost 3k ish.

heres a pic of matte n gloss black on one of my other vehicles… the pic makes the matte look greyer but its black ish in real life

 

You're doing an amazing job, really looks great, can't wait to see it completed. The bumpers look great!
Steve

 

Yeah those hoods are a lot of money I did a lot of research myself on hoods. and that looks really good with the gloss next to the matte

 

Thanks Steve

 

Hey guys you guys have more experience with these cats than me, does anyone know if this is right? Are the stripes supposed to be like this? Thanks

 

How about this one

?? Does anyone know? As you can imagine I don't know what the stripes should look like. Thanks in advance

 

It was a Bad day for me, I got called in to work today and only barely got the hood ready to paint and now it's raining so I can't paint the stripes today