I spent about the last month prepping and painting and rubbing out the car. I turned out great. (Watch out dial up!)

car being preped primed sanded, primed, sanded, you get the point. (excuse my server at times it can be slow as hell)




the "garage spray booth"


primed and prepped


Me and the color coat


after the wetsanding and buffing


the next three are the finished product

 

Very nice! :rockon:

 

Looks very nice.

 

It looks like you took the time to make sure it gets done right. Nice job.

 

oh man, I would love to have that much room in my garage to work on a car

 

Fantastic job there. I love the garage/spray booth. I wish I could do that.

 

great job...love that color blue:lala:

 

Fantastic!

Love the colour!

tj

 

Wow, that looks awesome! Very nice job!

 

Way to go! great job! You must be very proud of that.

Did you use a single stage paint? Or base coat clear coat?

Mike

 

holy cow thats awesome! got any "before" pics of the car before you started doin the body work and such on it?

 

He used a base coat clear coat he has a pic standin next to the base. Great job man looks like u took ur time and kept it clean.

 

That looks great..........turned out nice

Here is my question.....Ddi you paint the rear drums blue?

 

That looks awesome! Very good job

Bill

 

outstanding job. :hail:

 

Fantastic Job. You are quite talented. Enjoy it!

 

Not really. Just overspray. I repainted drums and inner wheel wells after,back to black. Actually was easier than trying to mask it off.

 

The earliest picture I have of the car is when I was yankin the engine. I should have taken pics when I first got the car, however, its too late now.

The picture actually doesn't show all of the imperfections in the paint very well. It wasn't all that bad to begin with, however, under the body side moldings there was some surface rust developing, so I figured if I was going to have to prep to paint the doors why not just do the whole car.

 

Fantastic job! If I had an adiquate facility, I would start work on my firebird. I need to fix it up once again.

That car looks awsome. Great job on the car!

 

Nice job! Did you setup a fan in the window or anything to pump air out?

 

Yes that is exactly what I did, nice sized box fan on high, I recommend a furnace filter on that also. It did a good job of keeping the over spray down. I used an HVLP gun (boy what a difference from the conventional type!)

Here is a picture before the wet sanding. Shiny as hell, I just wanted to get rid of the small amout of orange peal.

 

Does that have metal flake in it?

When I first had my car painted a buddy of mine put a box fan in the window. He didn't have an HVLP gun though and there was a lot of "paint" in the air.

Good looking car. Makes me REALLY want to get started on mine!

later,
bill

 

very nice man! one question, when you remove all the masked off areas, do you have to worry about the tape pulling off parts of the paint?

 

Yes it does have metal flake in it. At no time was their tons of paint in the air. When I painted my Nova about 8 years ago with a conventional gun there was.

I removed it the next day and had no problems. I just pulled "with " the direction of the surface at an angle and had no problems.

 

thats a beautiful paint job. looks like you took your time. enjoy the new paint and keep it nice

 

Awesome looking car. Congrats on a job well done.

 

how long did it take to do that body work?

 

It took me about a good 40+ hours to get the car perfectly straight (get rid of door dings, and 13 years of other imperfections). I used a nice 1.5 foot sanding stick on the flat surfaces when sanding near the end to make sure it turned out flat.