I realized that I have never shared photos of my car with you all. So here it goes. First few are the pictures of it a few days before I bought it from the craiglist ad. First thing I did was paint the chrome and tuck the bumpers, and slowly being doing stuff to it until present.
October 2007
Jan 2008
Those are actually seats out of a 1991 Galant VR4.
Angle comparison
The experiment.
Booth and various stages of painting and disassembly.
Today in the garage
Some photos this afternoon with WillisE30's clean as fuck s52'd '88 iS
Two tone was kind of an experiment and mostly an inside joke with friends involving cracked out bears, AE86s, and the panda sticker you can use in forza, but overall I think it turned out great. I am not a fan of white (I actually hate it), but this worked well with the bodylines. Have yet to give it a wetsand, polish and actually wash it. It will also get a red pinstripe down the tone split. Probably going to paint the wheels black to accent the wheel nuts and match the pinstripe. I still need to find some seats, install my plastic windows, harnesses, cage etc.. fuh-raze... etc. Also need to reinstall the trim, and clean up the front valence and fog lights.
Second car I have painted, with some much appreciated help from my room mate. Had issues getting it running, otherwise I was going to do it at work, but this worked out just as good. Not going for anything fancy, just want to make it a little more noticeable for when I start racing it seriously. For anyone interested, the black is John Deere Blitz Black, and it is fucking amazing and cheap, it went on kind of streaky, but that was user error on my behalf fucking up a good portion of what my room mate had done. The white is just some carquest single stage, if you use carquest paint DO NOT REDUCE IT. And only got that gem of advice after the job was done.
October 2007
Jan 2008
Those are actually seats out of a 1991 Galant VR4.
Angle comparison
The experiment.
Booth and various stages of painting and disassembly.
Today in the garage
Some photos this afternoon with WillisE30's clean as fuck s52'd '88 iS
Two tone was kind of an experiment and mostly an inside joke with friends involving cracked out bears, AE86s, and the panda sticker you can use in forza, but overall I think it turned out great. I am not a fan of white (I actually hate it), but this worked well with the bodylines. Have yet to give it a wetsand, polish and actually wash it. It will also get a red pinstripe down the tone split. Probably going to paint the wheels black to accent the wheel nuts and match the pinstripe. I still need to find some seats, install my plastic windows, harnesses, cage etc.. fuh-raze... etc. Also need to reinstall the trim, and clean up the front valence and fog lights.
Second car I have painted, with some much appreciated help from my room mate. Had issues getting it running, otherwise I was going to do it at work, but this worked out just as good. Not going for anything fancy, just want to make it a little more noticeable for when I start racing it seriously. For anyone interested, the black is John Deere Blitz Black, and it is fucking amazing and cheap, it went on kind of streaky, but that was user error on my behalf fucking up a good portion of what my room mate had done. The white is just some carquest single stage, if you use carquest paint DO NOT REDUCE IT. And only got that gem of advice after the job was done.
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