Spent the last week working with my neighbor prepping my car. He layed down the black this morning. Its looking killer. Now we have another week for wet sanding and buffing. Ive got pics of the whole process here:

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This was my most recent pic before the paint job started. Its a 20 foot paint job. Looks good from 20 feet away and when ytou get closer you see all the flaws. hehe

its gonna look good!

awesome !! cant wait untill my fresh coat of black..

I think it looks good right now, especially in the first pic. Even your worst pic looks better than mine. It must be so cool to have your car look like it just came from the factory. . . . . . I have a long ways to go before I get there.

Im so pissed at myself for not getting that hood.

Look'n Good

man.....looks freaking nice. Soon as i finish with my body i'm gonna be slappin the same color on mine hope i can do as good of a job as yall did.

how did you shave the antenna? did you put a piece of sheetmetal underneath? or just puddy it? .....and what did you do with the antenna, do you think it will still get good reception? im in the process of prepping my iroc for black paint also,......just wondering how you did the shave...

daddy like... i would give my left grape sized body part for a paint job like that.... dont tell me you sprayed it in that garage... ive layed some paint before and had the worse luck in similar conditions... try buffing out a cat.. seriously tho, nice. :hail: :hail:

Hehe your the first to notice the antenna delete . He just cut out a little piece of sheet metal, welded it in and smoothed here out with puddy. The whole task seemed to take him 15 minutes. I was still busy taking the mirrors and door handles off and he was done! He has been painting about 20 years so he knew how to get it done quick.

Im going to try to jsut put my antenna in the dash and see how it works. If that fails Ill get one that mounts up the side of the windshield.

Tell me what u guys think of my paint job.
SpdFrk's Camaro

Its seperate bay on the garage setup for painting. All air coming in is filtered, got a big fan pumping air out, etc... not quite your professional paint booth but quite efficient for a home booth.

Very little dust go on the paint which will be wiped out with a wet sand and buff he said.

Before I thought I wanted a silver paint job.. then I had thoughts of a black paint job. Now I'm positive I want black! Looks amazing!

You guys gonna paint the engine bay?




Your car looks great! I like it alot :hail:

sounds like you have all yer bases covered, awesome... again, nice paint job!!

The engine bay is also painted satin black. No way I was leaving it red .

did you use urethan or base/clear coat? awesome man.. can't wait to paint mine if only the snow could melt a bit!!!

Nice color choice

nice work. the car looks great. i love the way fresh black paint looks. i get to paint mine with in the next couple of months

Thanx alot iroc

The guy that painted it for me prefers urethane single coat for black. I went with his experience and recomendations. After seeing his urethane paint on his 1971 Plymyth GTX he could convince anyone.

PPG Concept DCC Acrylic Urethane is what was used.

I am a professional paint and I can tell you that he did a damn good job... the paint is very slick from what I can see of the pics and there won't be much compound needed for that job... once again nice car

Thats good to hear! I was quite nervous it wouldnt come out good but when I saw it this morning I was excited.

Did you have to paint the engine compartment?

Yeah, it was red. Ill have pics once she is all sanded, buffed and cleaned up!

Awsome! I love seeing good work being done to our thirdgens. Great looking paint so far. I can't wait to see the final product. I may be going through the same process again with my 84 Firebird. In the 5 year plan.

Thanks for the kind words everyone. Im quite excited that this never ending project is finally getting nearly complete. It will never end though ... upgraded brakes are next... then who knows. More power most likely .

looks incredible!