So I finally get a call at 3.30 Friday afternoon and he says that she is ready and I can go get her at 9am Sat - Stuff that!! I called the wife , dragged her out of work early and went out to get her there and then.
I am over the moon with the job he has done !!
Anyway - heres the pics:-

My camera seems to have problems with the two pin stripes close together when I resize down to post the pics - but you get the idea......













The wheels and tyres are a bit dusty from being at the shop and they managed to fit the gaskets for the wing mirrors upside down , so the mirrors are too close to the window - I have fixed that now.

Anyway I think it looks a 10 out of 10 now and it probably better now than it would have when it rolled off the line in 82 , the problem is that its down hill from now on!!

 

OH MAN... I'm partial to silver, and I just love that fade stripe on the hood & doors. Awsome!!!!
Eddie

 

WOW That looks really good. Very nice work. Any bodywork involved or just a repaint?

 

It did turn out very nice. I know what you mean about it being downhill from now on. I have thought about that too. No biggie. Thats what they were made for. Enjoy it, she's a beauty.

 

Thanks - I am very pleased with it - the fades are fantastic , I had him paint them on as opposed to the original decals that fade and spider crack over time - that shouldn't happen this time.

 

Congrats Brit. Looks amazing! I have the same issue with the drivers mirror on my 81. Hard to fix?

 

Thanks - Mostly just a repaint , there was some minor cracking in the paint right on the nose - I guess it was nudged at some point in its past (former owner?). Also some minor rebuild work around the driver door lock where the lock had either worked loose over time due to the lock being fairly stiff and so scoring the fiberglass or the painter thought it might have had an attempted breakin in its past ?? thats it - the rest was just blocking out some of the flat spots from the body panel joints and as I mentioned before the fades are painted on.
It started out that I wanted to re paint the front end because the hood fade was faded and spider cracked , I wanted the fades painted to eliminate the problem in the future , then I decided to get the door lock damage fixed too ( going to fit remote locking to stop that again) . Then I thought that having done that then the rest of it would look old against the front end being new so......... I took the plunge and got the whole job done and I think it is worth every penny.

 

Thanks - I figure that the last paint looked fairly good after 25 years , If this paint job looks as good in 25 years time , I will be happy enough!!

 

Beautiful!!

 

Thers the pics I have been looking for!!!!!


Looks Great

Nothin like washing and waxing

Let me know if you need hlep on the keyless

 

Its a bit tricky - but not too bad if you go about it correctly .
I removed the door panel and you can see the mirror mounting bolts. The front bolt is fairly easy , if you remove the two bolts that hold the window guide upright to the door shell then you can push the guide to one side and access the nut through the hole in the door with a socket on a straight driver or extension. The second one is a little more of a problem , some say you need to remove the window , I didn't , If you remove the window guides (the furry things that hold the window against the outer skin of the door front and back) then block (i used a roll of tape) the window back away from the outer skin. You can then with a bit of fiddling remove the rear nut from the mirror.
Before you totally remove the nuts holding the mirror on , disconnect the power mirror wire loom connected under the dash and tape securely a length of string to the end of the loom , then pull the loom with the string attatched back into the door.
Remove the mirror flip the gasket and re-attatch - again the rear nut is tricky but once you get it started its ok. then re tape the loom to the string that you have threaded through the door and pull it back through the door and reconnect under the dash - Job Done!!
It sounds a PITA and in reality it was but I did both sides in about 1 1/2 hrs.
Hope this helps

 

Thanks - I will do

 

That's probably the nicest repaint I've seen on a CE. Very very nice.

 

Brit...that looks fabulous! I love the hood...also, the rocker panels...are they painted to match like that from the factory? looks great and I know you are glad to get it back. I should be picking mine up NLT this weekend...but I will still have to put mine back together! but thats the fun part for me.

 

Thanks - The rockers are painted brown to match the stripes and fades , that is not how they are from the factory , they are black originally because the stripes and fades are originally decals and they couldn't be bothered to paint them brown for the CE's .
I think they look Soooooo much better painted to match.

 

Beautiful. Looks like great detail work.

 

It looks absolutely AWSOME! Stunning paint job!

Congratulations on that beautiful CE.

I don’t think there is a better CE in the world than yours!

 

Nice to see someone making there C3 better than factory.

 

VERY NICE!!!!!!



Rd

 

Way cool vette, congratulations!