Well I dropped the Firebird off to be painted last week I found I quickly became bored without something to work on. I decided to start redoing the interior pieces. I have almost all the plastics painted and since they were originally carpeted I decided to dye that too. The panels used to be tan. Here are a few pics of one of the panels. Tell me what you think.

Color Before:



After:

 

nice, what did you use and how did you prep them

 

I roughed all the plastics up with 180 and then wiped them down really well with laquer thinner. I then painted the plastics with Duplicolor Texture Metallic paint and painted the carpet pieces with fabric and vinyl dye.

 

Here are a few of the other pannels. I don't believe in rear seat belts- so I just got rid of those unsightly holes.

 

good stuff.. hope the paint holds up!

 

shiny...

 

Looks awsome. How durable is that paint?

what color are you painting your bird?

 

I sure hope you don't expect that to last.

 

that looks awesome ac i hope it holds up and im glad to hear your car is finally in paint.

 

 

There's a reason why shaker can is only $4 a can... Don't say I didn't warn you guys

 

Several people have shown if the work is done correctly, it will last. I agree, it's easy to do wrong and in that case it won't hold up, but if its properly prepared, they just saved themselves a pretty good amount of money by not buying all new interior panels and spending only $20 and having a nice, custom look.

Every time someone paints an interior, someone says something negative to say about it, and it's pretty much beating a dead horse. We all know that it works sometimes, and other times it doesn't. If it does, more power to them, they just made themselves a nice new interior.

 

Ive done the interior thing before i know all about how well it holds up. Hell last time was in my truck and i used 88 cent walmart paint and held up for 4 years before it ever started to fade. This time i upgraded to the $5 a can Krylon fusion. We will see.

 

Just becuase people have bad experiences because they dont know what in the hell they are doing doesnt mean that someone that does it right will have the same thing happen.

 

If there was a clapping smiley, I'd use it here.

 

The paint runs almost $7 a can, and its worth every cent. I'm very happy with the durability of this stuff. I also plan on clear coating it all once its had plenty of time to harden.

Chrysler Platinum with some form of a bird on the hood.. There will be pics of that soon enough.

 

The new seat covers for my PMD seats came yesterday from Hawks. I'll take them in to be installed today.

I also started making some kick panels. They need quite a bit more work, but they'll be sanded smooth and painted to match the rest of the plastics.

 

kick panels look sick...but, how will affect your driving? it looks like it gonna stick out pretty far..

 

Thats alot of work dude for kick panels. You should experiment with bending sheet metal. I bet you could get good at it and make some nicer ones with less work. Just an idea. Metal is fun!

 

Lookin good AC. Can you believe we'll both have painted cars this year?

Are they painting the aluminum gas door, or are you leaving it silver?

 

I took the seats to be recovered yesterday. The headliner, sail panels and sunvisors should be coming any day now.

Haha, I know! I'm pretty excited to actually have a painted car. The gas door will keep its aluminum finish- I'd like to give it that 'brushed' aluminum look, but I might end up polishing it. How's your car coming along? Maybe we'll finish in a tie afterall.

 

Im sure looking forward to seeing your car nearing completion. I've been checking out your website every so often for any updates. Seeing your bird in one solid color will be pretty sweet.

Hope everything turns out awsome!

later
-bill

 

Awsome Aaron! Cant wait to see your car all painted with the nose blank grilles

 

Bodywork is done- just waiting on some warmer weather to shoot primer. We got one nice 60* day a couple weeks ago and he primed & painted the engine bay (the color looks great in person). We're supposed to be in the mid-50's next week, so hopefully it will all be in primer soon and getting block-sanded.

I've been buying parts like a madman and this week I actually titled/licensed the car in IL (the AR tags expired in 1995)