and the rust-oleum award goes to......

.....Big AL and his 90 something Chevy Caprice!

All jokes aside the car came out great, (given the circumstances)



....little bit of filler here and there




spraying the car was nothing.... sucking in the gut was rough... lol



..... bill snuck in during the day to shoot the bottom half , no pics...so flash foward




....... great project..... what's next?

looks great! Details please!

Well thanks for the complements guys. I got a lot of help to get this done in a short amount of time. This car was, and is a combination of parts and ideas. Thanks for all the help guys.

Ok, the build: I had been stockpiling all the necessary parts for about a year. 91 tails, SS hood, Used DGGM grill, SS decklid w/stk. spoiler, RR door (to replace my really creased one), SS wheels, exhaust, SS front bumper (regular one would have worked too, my was just damaged)

The car was lowered & had the SS wheels on in the spring, but all the body stuff did'nt start until about two weeks ago. We started by swapping the decklid, hood, grill, RR door & front cover. I stripped off the Caprice side moldings (and the miles of double sided tape ) & wheel well moldings.

Fast foward to last Tuesday. We pulled the car into my garage 6:30 at night, pulled the wheels, headlights, corners, and tails. Got out the little grinder, & headed for the big dents & rust hole in LR quarter. I think the bodywork came out WAY better than I thought it would. Bill C. was on one side of the car while I worked on the other (no time to waste).

Wednesday, (I think. After not getting more than a few hours sleep some of these nights to days blurred together). Chris M., Bill C. & I degreased, scuffed, finished the bodywork, & fished masking. I mixed the quart of Flat black & was spraying it around midnight! Painted the SS wheels (Did'nt get home till real late that night).

Thursday, Bill M. , stopped by during the day, (to fix my bodywork ), mask the second color, and sprayed a quart of the Gloss gray (which came out awesome BTW). Thurs night we pulled of the paper & tape, I remounted tires on the SS wheels. Somewhere along the way Chris painted the engine-compartment. I painted the inner wheel-wells, frame, & misc undercar stuff

Friday, Bill C. striped the car, and I (against serious opposition) decided to repaint the roof, trunk, and tops of rear quarters, because I was'nt at all happy with my orginal crappy job. So.....more masking, misc sanding, prep work. Jim helped with the tape work. (Second times the charm.) We reinstall all the lights & wheels (Finish about 1 am)

Sat morn, steel wooled the glass, reinstalled the wipers (forgot we has taken those off) & headed out for the roundup.

Nice job, wish I couldve seen it first hand.
Like that color scheme.

I might have a couple pics myself.

Yeah, that was fun, but man.... I am STILL tired!!!! LOL!

I've got a bunch of pics at home. I'll host them tonight and post the link to the album.

I think the car came out totally bad ass!!!!!

What, no "before" pics?

toomanytoyz wrote:

What, no "before" pics?

Sorry. Here you go.

American Ricerrrrrr!!!!!!!!

IMPALADAKID wrote:

toomanytoyz wrote:

What, no "before" pics?

Sorry. Here you go.

American Ricerrrrrr!!!!!!!!

ROTFLMFFAO, i just spit soda out my nose.

IMPALADAKID wrote:

toomanytoyz wrote:

What, no "before" pics?

Sorry. Here you go.

American Ricerrrrrr!!!!!!!!

I spent the whole day wondering who's car that was. Laura asked and I said I'm not sure since I haven't seen it before. Guess I was very out of the loop

bammax wrote:

I spent the whole day wondering who's car that was. Laura asked and I said I'm not sure since I haven't seen it before. Guess I was very out of the loop

Now Brad, you didn't get there till 2, that makes it less than 1/2 day. Gotta get there on time Brad.

Tom

silverfox103 wrote:

bammax wrote:

I spent the whole day wondering who's car that was. Laura asked and I said I'm not sure since I haven't seen it before. Guess I was very out of the loop

Now Brad, you didn't get there till 2, that makes it less than 1/2 day. Gotta get there on time Brad.

Tom

With the whole car intact lol

Here's the album.

Just a few...