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I was thinking to myself that the trim might have the trim washers/nuts on them inside the door. Good call Crazy!

 

i found the nuts that held the trim off and got them off ok but later i backed the car onto the bottom chrome and flattened it im gonna try to straighten it out tomorrow. I wetsanded and did the 2nd coat, I couldnt finish the second coat because it got dark but i got the front back and 1 side done. Ill finish up the other side tomorrow. Its lookin pretty good so far, what do yall think?ill get some better pics tomorrow.

 

Looking good and doin it pretty fast too....cant believe the progress!!
I can see that if you really did some more wet sanding and polished it, it would really look great, and the paint just gets harder with time. That means it,ll polish up even better 3 or 4 months from now. Im gonna try it on a $200 S-10 pickup I bought.

 

thats awesome! going to tackle any stripes like the hot rod article?

 

my brother has just started painting a spare boot lid . it's on it's 3rd coat .
he got 40lt of industrial enamel ( paint for 44 gal drums ) . there was no prep other than a wipe down with wax & grease remover .
thinned about 40 -50 % .
two coats aplied with no sanding
then sanded 1/2 the boot & left one side unsanded , wiped down then painted again so far .
the sanded side allready looks better .
just testing now . looks good so far . he's also buying most of the stuff at $2 shops . it's cost $50 ( aussie $) & got 40 ltrs of paint free .
we will prep the car fully though .

 

i wish i could do some cool scallops like in hotrod but i dont have the skill to tape them straight. I will though paint the back line between the chrome blue to match the interior.

 

heres some more pics after 2nd coat. you can see im not painting my front right quarter panel because it has a dent i gotta fix before i can paint it.

 

heres after more wet sanding and a 3rd coat. My arm is tired of all that sanding. Coverage is getting alot better, after the 3rd coat i can still see a little original paint, maybe after 4th it'll be completely covered.

 

more pics

 

looking good man

 

updates? your arms must look like this now...

 

well im on pause because the weather didnt hold up, it now cold and rainy. Ill get started soon as the sun comes out.

 

heres after the 4th coat, a few more to go.

 

as u can kinda tell the gloss is pretty good, i cant wait to see it all polished up.

 

looking good

 

finally got the final coat on. now all i gotta do is final sanding and polishing and a few touch ups. hopefully it'll be on the road soon. i got a few paint splatter spots on my windows. whats the easiest way to get that off? Will paint stripper work or will that be too harsh of a chemical for windows?

 

I would just use a single edge razor blade on the splatter.

It is like night and day. It came out great! Good job!

 

nice work

 

upload the pics to photobucket, then post the IMG codes here

 

heres the final finished product. It cost me about $110 for all the supplies and LOTS of work. I think it looks pretty good, better than what it used to. Definitely not a show car, but I wouldn't want the responsibility of a show car. I like daily drivers, cars doing what their meant to do, no just look pretty sitting in a garage. And if i get nicks of chips or ever get that dent fixed its a easy inexpensive fix to paint.

 

car looks pretty good

 

if yall want i can post a detailed how to if anyones interested.

 

that'll be good

 

From the final pictures looks like you did lots of wet sanding, you flooded the driveway I think it looks great!!!!! and can't beat the price.

 

Spent more than that painting my living room! Good job bro!

 

yeah i flooded out the driveway alot. hated the mud.

 

It looks great. I love the wheel choice on that car.

What are you going to do about the right front fender?

 

well im gonna either take it to a body shop and see how much to fix it or if thats too much just get a replacement fender.