69MyWay
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It is official, the 69 is black as black can be as we speak. I got off work a few hours early and started taping it off. We made arrangements for another fellow to actually paint than what we had planned. His name is Chris Taylor, and he is awesome. Takes great pride in his work. He actually is a paint rep for ICI, but had no problem squirting my Dupont.
I got to use a neat product called SLIME. It is a soap based chemical that is shot out of a spray gun. You put it on anything you don't want overspray on. So, I jacked up the car and flooded the underside.
It took me several hours to tape it off (me and old gimpie right arm do what we can). Rolled it into the booth around 5:00 and started spraying around 5:45. Finished up at 9:30 last night. I am going to pick the car up this morning and square up on my bill. Like I said in the other post. This last round of paint chemicals alone was $797. That means that doing this myself, between filler, fiberglass, paper, sand paper, tape, thinner, gun cleaner, primer, sealer, base/clear, base/clear for the jambs, and misc items like spreaders, blocks, etc. I have spent around $2,000. Kind of scary. I know some shops will offer to paint your car for $1,000 or less. I don't know how they make any money that way.
The car looks great. There several spots that have soaked through despite endless hours of blocking and priming etc. He put plenty of clear. I should be able to 2000 grit block, and buff those areas out. His paint work was flawless. The car just glows and I could not find a single run or dry spot.
I will pop some pics in here later.
Okay, if all Corvette's are red, then mine is a major mistake. I never said it was going to be perfect!
I could not sleep last night, I am excited to see what it looks like in the sunshine today, and anxious about putting it back on the trailer and dragging it home.
I got to use a neat product called SLIME. It is a soap based chemical that is shot out of a spray gun. You put it on anything you don't want overspray on. So, I jacked up the car and flooded the underside.
It took me several hours to tape it off (me and old gimpie right arm do what we can). Rolled it into the booth around 5:00 and started spraying around 5:45. Finished up at 9:30 last night. I am going to pick the car up this morning and square up on my bill. Like I said in the other post. This last round of paint chemicals alone was $797. That means that doing this myself, between filler, fiberglass, paper, sand paper, tape, thinner, gun cleaner, primer, sealer, base/clear, base/clear for the jambs, and misc items like spreaders, blocks, etc. I have spent around $2,000. Kind of scary. I know some shops will offer to paint your car for $1,000 or less. I don't know how they make any money that way.
The car looks great. There several spots that have soaked through despite endless hours of blocking and priming etc. He put plenty of clear. I should be able to 2000 grit block, and buff those areas out. His paint work was flawless. The car just glows and I could not find a single run or dry spot.
I will pop some pics in here later.
Okay, if all Corvette's are red, then mine is a major mistake. I never said it was going to be perfect!
I could not sleep last night, I am excited to see what it looks like in the sunshine today, and anxious about putting it back on the trailer and dragging it home.
Very cool Chris!
