mw66nova

jack (my little brother) frequents this board, so to keep this a secret, i couldn't post it up on here. but, i figured since you guys like to see progress pics and such, not to mention finished products are a plus, i'd post up since he got the car back today.

as a result, i'm just going to copy and paste:

so my little brother now has andrew's old car. we've been working on it pretty diligently the last few months trying to get the car ready for paint. he really doesn't have the money to get it painted and i started thinking about what i was going to do for him for graduation. it's not gonna be a show stoppin' paint job, but it'll be all one color and i think he'll crap a brick once he gets home from visiting our grandparents for a month and sees it. anyhow, here's progress pics.

my good friend jeremy winters is doing all the work. i'm helping as best i can, but it's turning out to be mostly me just being a "go-fer", lol!

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mw66nova

yes that is the hood from my white car. i'm gonna fix my old cowl hood and put it back on the white car. jack didn't like the iroc style hood so this is what i came up with. all this is happening in secret, so keeping it from him, but still pulling enough information out of him for his personal prefrences has been an interesting challenge.

jeremy is coming over to block the whole car tomorrow and wednesday, and i'm having my ISS at work (i'm working at O'Reily's now) order the paint today. "flame red gm paint code 9353" is what it's getting painted...basically back to stock, the maroon metallic color. i'm getting excited now

pics of yesterday's work. like i said, the car is now blocked in 320. jeremy's coming over today to get the rest of the car prepped and in 600 wet. so far, i've pulled the rest of the emblems off and pulled the inner fenders. i'm not really sure what's left to do. i don't wanna take lights all the way out cause it has to be driven to the paint booth where i'll snatch the tails out. anyone got any ideas of what i can do while i'm waiting on my day off, let me know!









i'll try to get some more up from later on today as well

mw66nova

i just left jeremy's house. our paint booth fell through, so we made one at his house. i'll get some pics up as soon as he sends me some( i forgot my camera again) the booth is actually pretty nice looking considering our situation. this job is done on the CHEAP, but we still are doing the best we can with what we got. basically we just hung some tarps around the side of jeremy's car port, then he put some box fans at each end with old A/C filters on each side. it's lookin' like it's gonna work GREAT. the car is taped up and is getting basecoat tomorrow afternoon and a clear on friday morning. i'm getting the car friday evening and i'm gonna be able to get good pics of it saturday. i'm excited!

in the booth about masked up:




makeshift booth from the outside

mw66nova

it's back at the house guys! went and picked it up this evening between storms, lol! there's some minor issues that'll need to be addressed by jeremy behind a buffing wheel, but he's assured me it'll all buff right out. i'll get some better pics later when it's reassembled, but i can tell you this right now, the color is gorgeous.

mw66nova

90% reassembled, ready to be buffed now. should get some good shots of it buffed up by wednesday or so. thursday for sure.





quazi buffed. lookin' very good, i can't believe we painted this in jeremy's carport! i'm about to hop through the shower and go get my little bro from the air port. i think i'm gonna have jeremy go back in and buff the rest of the car, but he got all the little problem areas out.




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reaction! he dropped his luggage here, hence me getting on to him in the video to pick it up out of the middle of the parking lot.



video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tszNV2nvtvg

MaNiAk86

Very Nice as always Matt... looks just like i wanted my old iroc to look like.

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cameron7710

wow what a awsome surprise

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vette gator

"You guys suck" - Priceless! What an awesome graduation gift. Thanks for sharing.

Street Lethal

..... "Pimp my Camaro"

That was really awesome of you Matt....

maroon88iroc

how much did the paint and supplies cost you (with discount) curious? i havent checked on it.

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ran out of space for pictures heres the list (still 19)
1988 maroon iroc-z (first car)
1986 Z28 (built and sold)
1967 camaro rs (pro-touring)
1969 firebird (project)
1995 camaro (lt1 6-speed)
1986 corvette (93 interior and exterior)
1994 vette all original (admiral blue)
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fams cars:
1966 chevelle ss clone
1971 corvette vert
1995 impala ss
2001 silverado
1989 foxbody GT

mw66nova

thanks guys! i seriously could not have made this happen without Jeremy. mike, i'll pm ya with specifics

smgseanmicheal

nice im trying to do a flat white hood and some advice would be nice right now im using steel wool and uhhh brake cleaner to make it happen any better way? and after a clear coat it will it still be flat

GuitarJunki17

Very awesome, I wish that someone would do that for me while I was away at school! He's lucky to have such a cool brother.

godreject

what hood is that looks good, is it a reg hood with louvers removed im diggin it

cameron7710

im pretty sure its a 82-84 z28 hood

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mw66nova

yes, it's actually an 82-83 z28 hood. very rare in good shape. this one is in excellent shape. it's a factory fiberglass hood. (fyi, the 84's looked identical, but were infact, steel) i bought it for my race car, but after using it for a couple of months, i realized that i need to go back to a cowl hood for my own camaro. so the hood was donated to the project as well.

TorqueTilla

dude come to new jersey and be my new brother?? haha nahh but that seriously is a great present man, mad props to you being a great brother, hes a lucky kid

HCR13

haha, good job!

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gcgarner

The "You guys suck" comment was hilarious.

I don't want to sound uber-queer and say that what you did was "really sweet", but it was. Very thoughtful gift.

Sonymaster20

Thats awesome man. Its a good thing you did for your brother. NICE! lets see some more pictures!

mario82z28

what a cool gift that would be wana do mine it still in primer... just kidin i dont think that hood is that rare i have one just collecting dust in the garage

mw66nova

it's not so much that they are rare, but rather that they are rare in good shape. wish kansas wasn't so far away, i'd come get that hood

cameron7710

got eny pics of it befor u got ur hands on it?

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mw66nova

best i can do:

Street Lethal

Ohhhhh how schweeet <lisp>....

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