Alright guys, a friend of mine, his street name is 8ball, has a family in the auto body finishing bis. He told me he could hook me up with the best deal anywhere in half for a complete strip down and paint. He said pretty much i'd only be paying for the paint.

My car is Chrysler Platinum,



I love the color, but dont i dont really see many cars with this sorta color winning a car show. Can it still win? I mean i can get a complete paint job for cost of paint and thats it, and sooner or later my car is gonna be entering in some car shows once i'm done. What would the exterior really need?


Thanks,
Shane

didnt you just paint ur car like a few months ago? lol

anyway...i really dont think u should aim for a color that just wins car shows but a color that you like...but sence u asked...

Candy Apple Red seems to always be on the cars that have $30k paint jobs

Chrome illusion paint schemes

ghost flames and stuff

Its really not the color that wins its how good it looks best quality and stuff i think

yeah well, i did get my car painted a few months ago, but i'd rather like a very nice paint job than the "good" one i got. I mean it was the best $680 i spent on the car so far. But i can get a show car paint job for less than that and i'm gonna do it. 8ball graduates this year and i wont be seein him so much anymore. So i need to get this done while we still know each other ya know. I'm still a junior(class of '05 represent), so i got another year to go.

I love my paint job in everyway but there are minor impefections that i guess only i notice cause everyone thats ever seent eh car loves the paint job. I get people driving up next to me saying they love the color. I dunno, maybe the color is rare, yeah it is, only two of us got this color. Flyinlow89 and I are the only ones. I dunno if he got the expensive paint job or what but in a little while my car will be super flashy.

I guess when i get the exterior done i need to start matching the interior to the exterior themed colors, correct? The exterior being Platinum and black. Black seats and then go from there. I think might just reverse the interior main color, outside is mainly platinum and little black, interior will be mainly balck and little platinum. What do you think about that idea?



Shane

Hell ya dude, same here

I'd also say Candy colors stand out, bright reds and yellows, flames, and color changing. Blacks tend to stand out also, because it will show how perfect the body of the car is.

Grand Theft Auto ring a bell here?....



Sorry just had to point that out......Now onto the subject......

Paint QUALITY plays the major part in the paintjob appraisal.....Now tell your friend "8ball" to do a good job and you will win a show, your car could be pink, BUT if the paint had several layers and had alot of intricate details that would catch the attention of the judge, then you are good....

A show paintjob is at least $5,000 for a good one.....a nice one will cost you double that....

he guareteed me a perfect paint job or it was free man. My d00d 8ball hes cool. His real name is john but he hates it when we call him that. Hes a big d00d and has a very nice body shop on the northside(the bad side of town), i went there yesterday after school and i talked to the owner and 8ball was there with me and they said i could get it for labor free, cost of the paint only. I was like really? he said why not. Then i was like, is this gonna be a complete strip down sanding and all, he said yeah thats all we do, most people come in here and spend a good $4500 and leave with cars that goto car shows. I was like oh ****....i didn't say that though. Its pretty cool. I just gotta scrounge up the money for the paint and the clear coat. He said prolly around $900 for both of them. I though it was a good deal.


Shane

hmmm...... i thought you were joking about the GTA thing, i looked it up and his name relaly was 8ball. Hehe thats funny. I dunno, maybe that might be why everyone clals him 8ball, but i doubt it, hes been called 8ball since like middle school i hear.



Shane

im suprised so many people are in the class of 05! i am proud to say i am the youngest person probably on this board that actually owns a 3rd gen. but as for the topic.

if you can get a show quality paint job for anything less than 1200$ then what are u thinking about it for? done even ask us, u know youre going to do it anyways lol. i want to get my car painted as well, but being that i dont have a job yet, it wont get done until the summer(when the car probably wont see much downtime) so ill haveto drive mom's car. i was actually thinking that 200$ would cover a very nice paintjob, and to be honest, i havnt gotten a qoute for anything less than 2600$ and thats for show quality. jump on the chance while you can, dont let it pass you by.

if you get it done, then they will know that you will come back, so if you need something painted later on, they might just do it for you

well no job here too but i bet i'm younger. Born sept 9th, 1987..... prolly atleast 3 months younger.....



Shane

damn was just talking to the girl friend and she said how are you gonna pay for that when prom's gonna cost you a little less than a grand. I neglected to tell her the price earlier. Man prom here is expensive, $80 per ticket, $95 for a suit, $600 for H2 limmo, lots of money for a very romantic dinner. I'm gonna be paying out the *** for that, then hurrying up to get enough for the paint. Man this sucks.



Shane

Forget the Limo, ride in your newly painted, fly as can be, Thirdgen. You can't drink inb the limo anyhow.... And if she ain't hooking you up, why should you pay for crap that she wants??? I see dozens of H2 limos, A badarse Thirdgen gets more attention.

ummmm what she wants she gets or there is no "hooking up" for a month or two. Thats torcher man, you guys know. She also wants a limo so while we are in the car i be able to pay attention to her and not the road.

The thing is everyone's seen my Trans Am, i've gotten so many threats, people said they would key my car, cause they were jealius. I told the deans office and they said to park here right by the security camera, only one for the parking lot and its a peice of ****, so closer you get more better they'll be able to tell who it is. Everyone loves my car, good thing my gf and i got together cause as soon as i gtot he car i was suddenly even cooler than i already was. Everyone knows me at school. You ask whos sahne and they'll tell ya. i leave a legacy where ever i go. My car has made me cause now i can go places, take her places, and just drive. I mean shes's 19 and she still dont got a license; Shes getting it this friday in her new 79 Z28, that i helped her find. Those things are cool and fast.


Shane

In a couple of years the real world is gonna kick you in the ***.


How do you come up with this?

is it me or is kidrcth a post *****, he has more that 70 percent of the posts in most of his topics. i think he just wants a high number of total posts.

uhhh. i dont understand what the confusion is. i basically said i was already popular until i got my car then i was even more popular. The transition was only because of my Trans Am. I last sentence did kinda fallapart on me but i dunno what else was wrong. I didn't know what else to say besiodes, "just drive."


Shane

the thing is i'm on this board atleast 3 or 4 hours a day at the minimum. If you want an admin to check they'll show you the records of when i've been on here, and i'm on here all the time. I do post a lot in my threads due to the fact i keep in touch with my posts. I dont even care how many post i have, what is it, something over a thousand last i saw. I have like an average of 4 posts a day since jun 2003. Which isn't bad i guess. I'm on here more than some moderators. I just dont have enough of a strict mind to keep an entire board following the rules.


Shane

your car looks great i'd stick with that colour and just get a better job if thats what it needs

You will understand what the confusion is when you get older... Trust me....You will come back to that post and ask yourself....WTF

OMG we share the same birth day Check it out in my profile. I am class of 06 though.

i already do that to some posts. Like back in my early days on the boards. Wehn i didn't know **** about cars, but i pretty much understood cars(the physics) i go back and see how stupid i was. One of my most popular boards like this was the thread entitled, "twin eatons alive." I do regret how i acted cause it did make me look stupid but i have gotten past it.

I will get the car painted i'm just gonan have to make sure that they remember me so when i do get the money, after end of year, i'll be able to still get the same cost.



Shane

damn. I got started in school early is why i'm '05 instead of '06. I mean i'm the youngest non-foreign person in my class. My gf however is like the oldest, gonna be 19 in 10 days. But we are the same maturity level. I'm a little over mature for my age and she is a little below. So we match.




Shane

first no offense, but you dont want a gf that likes you only for your car. And also, what is up with her trying to control your money? lol I know how it is though.

If you repaint it, how about electron blue?

well my and my gf started going out before he handed the car down to me. before i even kne wi was getting a car so i know its not becuase of the car. We've liked each toher ever since we saw each other in the hallway everyday. Finnally we had our first class together then it started.

If any of you guys wanan see her, i do have some pics on my cardomain page,

http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/397345/6

you can tell by looking at her shes not a gold digger or anything. She controls my money becuase she controls her money..... alright I'm whipped guys, i'm proud of it too. I'm my gf's bi*ch and if you got a problem, then deal with it. Nobody steals my corn bread.


Shane


Now to keep this post thirdgen related, dont ever let girls, and stuff get mixed up with directing funds to fixing up your car. Also never let your girl friend see your pay check. Then she'll know what she can buy and you pay for. I always tell her about half of what i make so the rest if for me!!!!

i dunno, a lot of people complement me on the color of my car, maily becuase its only on two thirdgens. I think i'll stick with the color and everything, i will just get it show finished.

WOuld the paint color i got, do good in a car show? I mean with a color patching area everywhere? I mean, i gonna get the car color themed Platinum and Black. Maily platinukm on the outside, little black, then on the inside lots of black, little platinum. Since they dont make many platinum seats i'll have to just do it in the reverse manner. But yeah, it'll be done.




Shane

This is getting WAY off-topic, so lets get it back on-topic and keep it there. No non-tech BS.

Bright Red (especially) and Black seem to be the biggest winners at shows. But sometimes the rarer colors also do really good.

Can't go wrong with Bright Red or Black!!!!

is this your daily driver? if so dont worry about a show quality paint job until u have a decent job where you can go out get a beater car and keep the TA under a car cover or in a garage so you wont ruin a show quality paint job. i mean the price is pretty damn good but what if after u get it and few months later they close shop and then your screwed. then that $900 turns into a $5000 job if something happens.

Colors don't win car shows. In most cases politics do. If you want to take home trophies make sure you're good friends of the people or an active member of the car club putting the show on. That matters more usually then the how the car looks.

Yes my car is a daily driver. However, a show car quality job for $900 is something I just cannot pass up at the moment. I will get this job done, I’m at school right now, next period I see him, I’ll have to talk to him some more. But I paid $680 for a job that will only last as long as the warrantee, 4 years cracking/peeling, and 2 years fading. I got all this for $680, but it is s nice paint job, except it does have orange peel, and I’m not experienced enough to remove it, nor do I have and Polishing compound to shine it back up. I like the paint job everywhere except a small problem area and its because of the prep work done below it was not the best it could have been and when you look at the area at like a 15 degree angle you can see it. Any other angle it’s never there. My car is very nice and all but I’d like it to be better.

My favorite color is silver. I don’t wear anything except silver jewelry; I don’t want anything on my car except silver/aluminum. But if it takes a different color then what I got then I might just have to do this.

Nobody really ever answered my question before, If I get the outside the identical color, and the interior plastic panels painted the same color, the rest be black; would al this match? Just imagine what I got on the outside on the side but backwards. Lots of black and little platinum on the inside, lots of platinum and small amount of black on the outside. Would this be a nice theme? Or would I need to be more custom than this? What would need to be done to the interior of the car to make it match the themed outside? All suggestions will be taken so please post your ideas for outside/inside color matches.


Thanks,
Shane


P.S. sorry about getting off topic before, things just drifted that way but now they are getting back to the right way.

Wow, you need to get out of Wi and try some shows down here, if that happens here more than once people quit going to that show and it dies. I am involved in running two different shows and a very large monthly cruise and we try very hard to keep the voting and classes as fair as possible.

well if you do to much of the interior pieces in the same color as the outside then its goin to look alittle tacky and wont look as good. id say if your goin to do the inside with the same as the outside color. do very small pieces but pieces where people will be like wow that looks great even matches the outside. but just dont go doing all the vents, and gauge cluster, etc. find the pieces that you think would look good matched with the outside color and it should come out good.

The color you have looks fine but I'd get rid of those wheels,blehh.I bet that you could win a couple trophies if you had nice wheels,a clean engine bay(which I see you have but adding chrome pieces could help out some more) and clean interior(no seat covers and covered armrests).Presentation goes a long way in car shows.

where did you get that paint job for 680$?

a place in the southeaster US call spray glo-
http://www.sprayglo.com/corporate/index.asp



Shane

oh yeah more info on the paint job they do-

What they do it take all body parts off the car so they can be glass/sand blasted. This takes all things off the metal for a completely new finish.


The total cost with tax is, $1069.99, that is for the highest quality color, then clear coat, they got.

I think that is a very nice cost, dont you?





Shane

dump her, go with some other chick or don't go at all, hook back up with her a week after prom, and get your car painted. simple as that

off topic again d00d, but anyways-


nah man, i love her to death. I couldn't dump her just so i could get my car painted. Even though she pretty much steals my money while i'm watching her, i'd never be able to dump her. I promiced her the best night of her life prom night so the paint can wait a while but she cant.


Back on topic-
I guess then maybe just a little platinum on the inside but make them things that people focus on. Like say thew radio faceplate and center console plate, Plastic door panels, and the little vents, oh wait didn't i already do all of them silver?







Ooo look how smooth that silver is,(if your wondering thats thing is my outside temp guage)




I think i know howto make things pop out at ya. I'm fixing to try to do the t-top door handles also and a few other things.



Shane

oh yeah and in the first pic look at the guages, does anybody see silver there too, i do!!!!!




Shane

Nice to know there are some more class of 05's around here. People are constantly ****ing with my car at school; shoe polishing the windows (it stained the paint, grr) and they LOVE pissing on it for some reason. All I can say is that they are lucky that I have a good temper... those stupid mother ****ers!!!!!!!

dude that's just wrong... u let someone **** on your car?

nasty man...

i've never had any problems with my car... when i WAS in highschool a few years ago... people would just adore it.

i could leave the roof off in the parking lot and nobody ever ****ed with it.

i suggest you get an alarm and a baseball bat...

yea I can't say I've ever had problems with anyone ****ing with my car...accept the birds *** Damn birds!!!

As for this topic...

well next year, i am gonna have full vehicle security, 3 cameras in the car, 1 VCR. That way if anyone ****s with my sh*t they'll pay. I'll get my boys on their ases so fast it ant even funny.

I already got a car alarm, its a Viper, but no paging system and since they wont let me outta class for it either, need some cameras. I'm thinking one in each rear wheel well, and another somewhere else. I migth just need 4 cameras.

My car has never been messed with yet, but when it does they will pay. I park as close i can to the school security camera for my protection. With this new paint job it will be needed even more than before, so these camreas will be going in. And running at all times, school lasts 8 hours, thats one 8 hour tape, when i'm driving, another 8 hour tape. If a cop does something to me he shouln't have, hes gonna be on tape. Also, when i'm speeding i'll have videos already so, better not catch me with them.

My gf, loves my car almost more than me, she brags about the times i take her 120MPH over the dainespoint bridge. Someday i feel she'll get me in trouble by telling a cop on accident. If someone were to mess with my car, she'd get her buddies too to get whoever messed with my car.

I'mthe most well known d00d in my school, and also the most hated. When your as cool as i am, people just gotta hate, they just gotta. The lesser people threaten my car all the time.

But as for right now, my car is gonna be going through a transition from looking great and being sorta fast, to looking awesome and being super fast. Heres thelist thats gonna happen to the car eventually-

These Are all mods that are to come in the future-

Interior-
97+ 4th Gen Console $110.00
Summit Leather Racing Seats(x 2) $410.00
Carpet Interior Panels $35.00
Rear Seat Covers $175.00
4th Gen Dash $300.00

Appearance-
SLP FireHawk Rim 17x9 $699.00
Coper Zeon 2XS Tires(x 4) $480.00
4th Gen Style Wing $650.00
Lambo Doors $440.00

Stereo-
4x6 Speakers $80.00
6x9 Speakers $100.00
Fiberglass the 6x9 baffle $50.00

Engine-
350 Engine $300.00
LT1 intake Conversion $400.00
383 Stoker Kit $600.00
Fuel Lines $85.00
Thermostat Housing $65.00
LT4 Hot Cam $500.00
700-R4 Rebuild Kit $225.00

Suspension-
TDS Steering Brace (aka Wonderbar) $50.00
1982-92 Sub-Frame Connectors $189.00
High Performance Front Swaybar $65.00
Eibach Pro-Kit Lowering Springs $239.99


here is also what it most liekly will look like with them wheels and tires too,



Visit my cardomain sight in the sig to see me and my girl friend if ya want. She loves thirdgens just as much as i do, but she cant use a computer. I just showed her yesterday working on a physics lab that there was a numeric key pad next to the letters for easy number typing. She never gets on the internet really.
http://www.cardomain.com/id/kidrcth



Shane

Hehehe.. you're in for a world of hurt if you keep that attitude with the women of today.. what she wants she gets.. ouch.. can ya say.. *crackin' the wip*???

Tell her she's goin in your showstopping kicka55 3rd Gen. And that you'll be expecting some of that "hookin up" on the way...

hehe

If I only knew then what I know now. MAN what a different life I'd have.

well i tried to tell her that by then the car will be aboslutely ostounding, but she was like no. She wanted to be able to sit alone in the back of the limo to do "stuff." Lord knows what stuf we could do back there and not in my car. I mean there are traffic lights, come on. But uh, d00d its not like she is mean or bossy, you just cant turn her down. I mean have you seen her yet? Maybe i should just post her pics with me. Its hard turning down her puppy face too. I mean after the day is over i can see that i'm whipped, but when i'm with her, i swallow whatever words would have come up otherwise.

Theres no way to tell her, no this money is for this. I promiced her the best night of her life for prom. What she wants that night she is gonna get. Even if that means postponing my paint job, my engine, my lambo doors, all kinds of shizzle on the list-


Here she is yall-

She doesn't have to be mean and bossy.. that's not attractive. However, just like you said.. you just can't turn her down.

Let me tell you something young buck.. SHE KNOWS EXACTLY THAT and will use it as leverage whenever, wherever she possibly can. And the damn thing is.. she'll get her way everytime.

Give her the best night of her life. Just make sure she's going to reciprocate and give YOU the best night as well!!

Later..

Shane, I have asked you once before to not bring up your personal stuff in posts anymore. Every time you do, things get way out of hand. Keep it tech only, if you want to talk about relationships and other stuff, find another board. Thank you.