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LT1Vettepilot
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I've had too much time on my hands lately, and as a result have come up with several ideas for a paint job. First a little background...My '96 Lt1 Coupe is basically stock, black over torch red, with the transparent top. The hood has a nasty nick in it, and some @$#hole backed into the rear and left one night in a parking lot leaving the paint damaged in a small 3x4 inch (roughly) area...no physical damage to body parts fortunately. The car is a daily driver, and so the paint is starting to show its age...i.e. swirl marks, light scratches, etc. Estimate from local Chevy body shop is $800 to fix and refinish the hood, and about $500 to prep and respray the back. $1300 to have a nice shiny hood and rear bumper with the rest of the car still showing its age. OR, they will disassmble the car, and repaint like factory new for $3000-$3500, depending on labor charges to smooth out the stone chips. I need new tires up front, and the 255s are getting harder and harder to come by, one of my front wheels has a slow leak due to a small crack in the wheel near the bead. So I need new wheels. So I figure, I've been wanting to sell and move onto a C5, but that hasn't been progressing very well. The interior is in great shape and needs no work, so I just need some wheels and paint. Thats what got me thinking! I want to trade up to the Collector's Edition "A" mold wheels. So I figured, as long as I'm going that route, why not repaint with a modified version of the Grand Sport paint scheme. Base coat black with a barely noticable, slightly different color skunk stripe. So I bought a '96 Grand Sport model so I could play with paint schemes. I'm thinking a pure original black car with a anthracite gray skunk stripe. Think spiral grey from the new paint line only a bit darker, and metalic. While shopping for the paints for the model, I came up with another idea...keeping the black base coat, and use a version of the chameleon color change for the skunk stripe. Not sure how that would look though, but the idea evolved...rather expensively at that. I found a deep blue prismatic that changes to a UV from a different angle. I am still working on the model, and only have the base black coat down right now, so I don't know what the UV color actually is (since UV is invisible to the human eye...I wonder just where they came up with it?) Depending on how dark the Deep blue turns out, I may continue with the anthracite gray stripe, but if it is closer to the admiral blue in a GS, then I'll go with the white skunk strip. As for the hash marks, if I go with them at all, they will be red. Any thoughts or ideas here?