Well, its close enough to finished that I can put a few pics up.









The stripes are Copper Penny Pearl. Its amazing how they can look in bright sun.
Let me know what you think!

 

beautiful, I like it alot, it looks very nice and I really dig the fact that its different, I dont think Ive ever seen that color before, at least on a thirdgen. Good job!

 

Thanks for the kind words! I was real unsure about the color, and origonally got the pearl to spray over the whole thing. After we got the first coat of color on, though I changed my mind!

 

i like it , pretty cool. i dont know about the rims , the arent bad but i think their is a better set for it , but awesome none the less.

 

Wow, thats an awesome color, especially on the stripes! Did you paint that yourself in the garage? If so, Awesome job. Cant wait to see some more pics!

 

ohhhhh shhh!!!!tttt

 

very nice..good job

 

What color is that????

 

His rims are the same as mine, Eagle Alloys 077's. But you're right, there are better rims out there. I'm tired of mine. The finish hasnt held up the way I thought it would. And I want 18's instead of 17's anyhow...


Oh but beautiful camaro by the way!

 

OH MY GOAD, Amazing paint job man!

 

Drop dead gorgeous!

 

Yeah, the only reason I got the rims was because they were $400 and had new Kumhos on the front and MT Et Streets on the backs. I will get different rims at some point, but for now they are fine, and you don't see them on everyone elses rides, like SS, ZO6, TTIIs, etc...

That was why I did not go with the 91 GFX and tall spoiler as well.


All the body work and 3 coats of primer were sprayed in the garage, but the color coats, stripes and clear were sprayed on in my buddies shop.

Color is a custom PPG mix. The stripes are just pearl sprayed over the orange, they are like ghost 'stripes' but we put down 5 coats of it so you always see them, but they still change dramaticly with the sun. If it is sunny out, they sparkle, if it is cloudy, they just look darker than the rest of the car.

 

nice colour.. lets see a shot of the front end of the car from the headlights looking forward and to the windshield.. I'd like to see how the stripes look on the hood

 

Here ya go, not quite the angle, but had it already. I'll get a straight on shot later.

 

Notice they actually follow the lines of the car, and the ends aren't just squared off.

We had a 70 chevelle in the shop while we were painting this, so we could look at its factory stripes and lay these out the right way IMO.

 

 

ya now thats what I'm talking about.. that looks awesome!!

 

Thanks for the kind words!

 

Earlier this week I taped Rides on TLC and just now had a chance to watch it. I immediately thought about this thread because they painted a 70 Chevelle in what looks like the same color combination, stripes and everything, as you've done to your Thirdgen. And now I come back here and see you saying you had a 70 Chevelle in the shop at the same time....to weird!

I know the one on Rides was done at Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Michigan and ultimately GM made the guys repaint the stripes in black for the SEMA Show introduction of the car. But the original idea, and the paint job they showed going on the car in the show, was orange with slightly darker orange stripes (a touch of red added for those) and then a pearl shot over the whole thing.

Is this all just a bizarre coincidence, or do you know any of the guys at WCC that worked on the Chevelle for that episode of Rides? I was bummed that the stipes had to be redone in black on that car, but happy for you that you get to keep this combo on your car. I'm liking it more and more!

 

Just a bizarre coincidince! But interesting none the less!

What really got me was last months PHR had 9 cars you should build, one was a 3rd gen orange with black stripes, and 5 spoke wheels like mine only with a dish.

My dad called and said your car is in PHR. I had thought about doing white or silver stripes, but did not want to go black.

Yeah, she'll stay like this, unless it were to get some body damage and require a repaint, which hopefully never happens! Konck on wood!

 

What do you guys think about the stripes going down onto the nose? We first layed them out just on the hood, and my painter friend, said it doesn't look right, lets take them down on the nose and see how they look, so thats what we did.

 

Your friend was right - especially since you've shaved the emblem off. The Heritage stripes couldn't extend further because of the emblem and it's not like you're trying to immitate the Heritage stripes anyway. I like it as is and would have done the same were it my car.

 

Oh, and I have not wetsanded / buffed it yet It'll really shine then!

 

just noticed that your nose doesnt line up with your hood exactly yet, still have some tweaking to do?

 

Yeah, worked on it yesterday, I have not got my new bumpers and adjusters yet either.

 

that thing is sexy

 

Brisk,

Here are a couple straight on pics I took in the garage, notice the flourescent lights reflection.


One is with the flash, other without.

 

Cool, nice to see pics of yours. I like the hood and wheels ha!! (notice I have the same setup)

However, I know in some area's the 91 spoiler and gfx are overdone, but where I'm from, my car gets looks left and right cause no one else has 91 style camaro's, let alone a clean one haha