One of the latest projects, just wanted to post some pictures. It's an 87 Buick Regal with a turbocharged 3.8. The car was originally black, but it didn't have the black out option so all the trim was chrome, bumpers were chrome, etc...
This is before:
The car was weather checked extremely bad so it needed to go all the way to metal:
Here's a shot of the metal under the paint that was weather checked. Pretty rough:
Once I got the car to metal, it started to flash rust almost instantly. The flash rust happened so quickly, that I ended up having to put the car in epoxy primer one panel at a time. By the time I cleaned the rust off a second panel, the first had started to turn orange again. I started with the drivers side front fender:
Literally ever panel on the car needed body work. Nothing on the car was straight:
The passenger door was the worst. It had been compressed at some point in it's life and was rippled from top to bottom:
After a million hours of body work, it went into 2 coats of high build primer:
After that, the car was block sanded and the body work touched up. Once that was done, 2 more coats of high build primer were put on it. That was sanded slick, and a final coat of epoxy primer was put on the car. Then it was painted black. The paint is a mix that has no toner other than black, no additives, nothing; - just black. It's quite a bit darker than the factory black:
Couple coats of PPG Concept Clear:
One of the bumpers, now in black instead of chrome:
The final sanding and buffer / polisher work:
And a few shots of it all back together:
There's a bunch of pictures of it on the photobucket page.
This is before:
The car was weather checked extremely bad so it needed to go all the way to metal:
Here's a shot of the metal under the paint that was weather checked. Pretty rough:
Once I got the car to metal, it started to flash rust almost instantly. The flash rust happened so quickly, that I ended up having to put the car in epoxy primer one panel at a time. By the time I cleaned the rust off a second panel, the first had started to turn orange again. I started with the drivers side front fender:
Literally ever panel on the car needed body work. Nothing on the car was straight:
The passenger door was the worst. It had been compressed at some point in it's life and was rippled from top to bottom:
After a million hours of body work, it went into 2 coats of high build primer:
After that, the car was block sanded and the body work touched up. Once that was done, 2 more coats of high build primer were put on it. That was sanded slick, and a final coat of epoxy primer was put on the car. Then it was painted black. The paint is a mix that has no toner other than black, no additives, nothing; - just black. It's quite a bit darker than the factory black:
Couple coats of PPG Concept Clear:
One of the bumpers, now in black instead of chrome:
The final sanding and buffer / polisher work:
And a few shots of it all back together:
There's a bunch of pictures of it on the photobucket page.
