Project: Face Lift

[98blackbeauty]

IMHO Friday sounds like the best day!

[md80zdriver]

UPDATE: It's been awhile since this thread but thought i would give you guys an update. I bought an ss hood from Tonic, a ss spoiler from Ebay, and next week is my layoff week so i figured what better time to paint a car. I also got my quote for materials from finishmaster and came out to just under 1200 for 3 quarts of cobalt metalic blue at 160 a quart, a gallon of PPG DCU 2002 high solids poly clear a quart of reducer and a pt of hardner to go with it. So hopefully next week i'll be painting, i'm thinking this weekend and some of next week will be used to sand the car down and fix the dings in the car. I am also shaving the antenna of the car due to the fact that i don't get very good reception and i don't really ever enjoy listening to the overplayed songs on the radio.

So i'm hoping that this is how it goes down.

Saturday and Sunday: Wetsand entire car with 400 gritt
Monday: patch up hole for antenna and start fixing dings
Tuesday: continue body work
Wednesday : Finish Body Work/ Prime
Thursday: Paint car
Friday: Drink Beer
Saturday: Assemble and polish car
Sunday: Sleep

Your alot more energetic than I am, My car is in the body shop getting all the dings and rust taken care of. It went in last Tuesday and I should have it back next Tuesday. I'll post some pictures when it comes home.

Rick

[cobalt camaro]

well it's not so much energetic as much as it is the car was totaled before so any damage that's on the car now isn't even going to come close to what it was like. This is still an estimated time frame and as we all knokw car projects never go as expected. I'll try to keep this updated but sometimes i have a hard time stoping to take pictures.

[cobalt camaro]

Update: Project Face Lift

Well up to this point the car is just about completely wet-sanded. The hood needs to be patched up a little bit. The antenna has been shaved off, and i just spent about 1200 on paint today. I can not wait to paint my car and then never drive it to school or work again. Well more pics are to come but hopefully these will tide you over.

[1qwikSS]

sounds like a busy week! should look good when its all said and done....be sure to keep us posted on how everything goes!!

[bigjon88]

gonna be one kick ass car when ur done!

[cobalt camaro]

Update: Well just as i suspected there has been some delays. I had to attend an open house for my little cousin, and then i went down and helped do some landscapping for my grandpa, so two days were ate up. Then me and my dad did not like the way that the ss spoiler looked as is so we modified the rear quarters and spoiler in order to have a nice curve to them. I am getting really excited to get the car done, i miss driving it and i know it's going to look great. Well wish me some luck i'm hoping to have most of it painted by tomorow and then be able to start assembling the car back together in the following days.

The ss hood i think is going to turn out great, but i'm having a hard time locating a grille for the hood so i might be missing one when i drive it but i'm hoping to win one in an auction soon enough. Well just thought i would update you guys. Sorry no pictures, but i might have some of it in primer tonight. Thanks

[meissen]

Thanks for the update, let's see some pics tonight!

[cobalt camaro]

Well here are the pics i promised. Hopefully tomorrow she will be painted and i'll have some even better pictures.

[bigjon88]

niceeee

[meissen]

looks pretty good so far! Nice coat of paint and it'll be poppin!

[cobalt camaro]

Well today we got a lot done. All of the body is painted just need to still paint the mirrors, the spoiler, the rear filler piece and the hood. Here are some pics of the car as she sits now, hopefully i will be able to at least start piecing that part of the car back together while we are painting the rest of it.
Well onto the pics.

[meissen]

D-d-d-d-d-d-damn! Looks awesome, Dale!!!!! I bet you're happy so far! Looks great! Congrats man!

[s.reef]

Looking great!

[78mali350]

wow that really looks great!