started as a diamond in the rough but knew it had potential. when i first got it my friend gave me a cowl hood as a welcome to the third gen club, i started with the engine and perfomance parts first to make sure it ran good, got it timed and tuned, everything went as planned and was ready for paint

 

and the finished result turned out really good i was impressed, i was short on cash so ended up with a 500 dollar maaco paint job, i was alil worried at first but it turned out pretty good, its almost ready for summer i just need to get the seats customized and some new gauges

it wont let me post the same file twice so to see the new paint job click on the link and scroll to last post
https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/body...r-paint-8.html

 

It's hard to believe that it's the same car, right? She looks amazing! You're also right about the Maaco paint jobs. I had mine painted back in April for $900 and I think it looks great! I didn't pay $4000 for the paint job and I do get lots of looks when driving it. It's not perfect and could use some wet-sanding to remove a few dust particles here and there, but for what I paid I am completely satisfied. I think with Maaco you just have to take the extra steps to prep it right. As with any paint job, you are going to get out what you put in and I think mine was well worth $900 and all the days we spent sanding the body down.

 

posted it for ya it looks really good. cant believe after all ive heard about macco and 500 bucks got you this? thats a good deal

 

oh no doubt i was kind of worried because they finished it so quick usually it takes 3-4 days with them i dropped it off later in the day on tuesday and got it back at 3 oclock thursday but im happy with the way it turned out. but like you said cruzin i think doing some of the prep work helps out alot. and thanks for the pic post chevy heavy