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Old Dec 19, 2001 | 11:53 PM
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Car: 85 Camaro SC
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Going to paint my Camaro, any prep sugestions,and a few before pics

I'm currently sanding my car down and Friday or Saturday I will put the primer on.I will be painting the front and rear bumpers seprate all the gfx and I will also take the hatch off and fenders off to paint,anyone have suggestions to what else I need to do.




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Old Dec 20, 2001 | 06:33 AM
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Car: 1986 IROC-Z
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http://www.geocities.com/camman86/ex...paintprep.html
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Old Dec 20, 2001 | 01:29 PM
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While sanding I found this under some poorly done bondoing.The previous owner hit a telephone pole while backing up.I saw rust coming out from under the bondo so I took it all off.Whats the best product to get rid of rust?
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Old Dec 20, 2001 | 01:58 PM
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The POR-15 stuff is good isnt it? Or that rust to black primer stuff?
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Old Dec 20, 2001 | 08:42 PM
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Thats just to cover up the rust and to prevent it from spreading.
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Old Dec 22, 2001 | 12:20 PM
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dupont makes the por-15 stuff but its called soemthign else
i painted my z red w/black racing stripes the best prep info i can give you is to get the body as smooth as you can posibly get it that way the out come of the paint is good and you wont spend a long time wet sanding and buffing the car use comet and scotch brite 1st then use 600 wet sand paper and the scotch brite again to get a really good smooth base for painting good luck
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