For the last 5 years I've been on this board people have been asking when I'm going to get my Firebird painted. I finally have an answer. May 1, 2005:

 

With clearcoat...

 

Ah, the killer rule-of-3. You'll have to click on this link to my CarDomain page to see all the other pics.

The paint came out really nice and the bodywork looks stellar. Serious kudos to Jay for doing great work

 

awesome!

i love the cowl hood on the bird, dont see many with it.

more pics!

 

rules only apply if you're uploading them to thirdgen.org ....so...just link more from your cardomain

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Gorgeous job btw. My car's had new paint for about 5 weeks now...and I haven't been able to post pics Waiting for a long weekend and I'll have pics of my own

 

holy crap!!!!!!!! I can't wait till thirdgen fest to see this thing. you are gonna kill in the show part.

 

holy crap!!!!!!!! I can't wait till thirdgen fest to see this thing. you are gonna kill in the show part.


I hope so still have alot of wet sanding and buffing to do... I can not wait till i get a booth. So i can turn out some clean paint jobs.

 

the cowl looks cool with the firebird/formula nose.

 

I might kill in the "uncompleted project" dept. I'm going to be up some late nights getting the thing put back together in 3 weeks.

 

Looks really good i like the new color and i also like the door handles thats a good alterantive to shaving the handles.

 

Looks amazing Kevin! Congrats on winning our competition and good luck getting it back together in time.

 

PAINT YOUR.....errr... wait... umm.......


























crap.

 

We'll call it a draw. Yours had basecoat before mine but mine had clear before yours.

 

I agree....looks amazing Kevin! Sad though....one member less in the Primer Club. Kudos to Jay for the work! How 'bout coming to PA Jay....I got another 'Bird for you to paint.


-Derth

 

looks great

 

looks good. now it's off to jay's with my car to finish it up for the fest as well. but i'm glad yours came out so well. good luck on putting it back together. i have mine together but need to take it apart for paint. guess we're working exactly backwards and together we have one complete car with paint that runs. woo hoo.

 

That color is awesome. You guys sure didnt half azz it on the job. That car has no black left on it......

 

well in the furture I'm hopeing we will have a flat bed. so we can pick up cars... But for now u can tow it here.lol

Some black left.. inside the car.. the floors are about the only place u would know it was a black car.

 

That looks really good. Cant wait to see it all put back together.

 

goog job Kevin, Jay congrats

 

lookin good. I see on your site u did the quarter panel with "the wrong kind of primer." what was the wrong primer you used and then what was the right kind?

 

super sexy

 

he did not so much use the wrong primmer.. But lacquer primmer.. with no etching primmer under it.. Alot of times
lacquer will shrink up. u will end up see sanding marks.2 part primmers dry faster and don't shrink up. But cost more.

 

it looks real good. i always loved that blue....i need some one in connecticut that would paint my car......anyone

 

that's looking kick-***! The flush door handles look awesome and really disappear now that it's painted.

 

that is awesome, im getting mine painted in a week or so, whats the paint code on that?

 

I just went though the car domain and man, that looked like there was ALOT of time put into it. That blue really does look great.

Jay-what did you do to get rid of the radio antenna hole? Is it really labor intensive?

 

Sweet!

 

Dk Cloisonne Met. Is the name of the color. Its 94 to 96(i think) chevy vettes. the dupont code is 128A.. Thats all they should need.. They can cross reference that number for any brand paint.

 

Short & simple... wow.. that is looking quite amazing

 

what kind of door handles are those and how much did they cost? i'm debating on whether to shave or use diffrent handles.

 

hey kev,
i saw the car tonight while i was dropping off body parts to jay for him painting my camaro. gotta say that the car looks absolutely AMAZING. i really commend jay for his work and paint skills. that thing is gonna kill at thirdgenfest. good luck and get wrenching on it, you have a lot of work ahead of ya. as for me it's off to aruba for a week then back to wrenching on mine and flat bed'ing it over to jay's as well. good luck and it looks great once again.

 

Thanks everyone. 86iroclamarque: the door handles are off a '99 Grand Prix, but GM has used them on most of their cars since about '97. The problem is that junkyards don't want you to cut up a nice door to get the handle section so you either gotta find wrecked doors or pay the money for nice ones and cut them up. The cost is whatever your local yard charges. I've got $110 in my handles and metal door sections.

xpndbl3: I'm going over there in a couple hours so I'll finally get to see it in clear and buffed out. My Summit order came yesterday so I've got everything (except the time) to put it back together. You were wrong about one thing. It can't look great "once again" because it's never even looked good the whole time I've had it.

 

thanks again all.. Well its back in kevs hands. I don't think he will be posting that much on here for a few weeks.. lol

 

2 after wetsanding and buffing

 

Damn...Makes me want a cowl hood.

 

wow. glows so much in that pic, it almost looks photoshopped... lol

 

Yeah, now that it's in the light, the paint does glow!

 

I wet sanded the car for 2 day.. lol.. My arm was hurting bad