bkvette3

stinger12

This is round 1 of painting. As with everything, there is a process to painting. Byron sealed, painted the blue, then cleared everything. This will allow us to lay the stripe out, spray the silver, and if there is any overspray on the blue, it can be wiped off without affecting the blue base. The rear end will then be cleared to burry the silver stripe. Everything will then be cut and buffed.

It's been quite the journey. Pretty proud of the skills Byron has taught me.

Enjoy.

havesometo

Bet you're happy to see paint on it. Looks good.

spedaleden

Waited a long time to see this and it is beautiful!

Nice job

riggs 74

You should be so proud, your project is looking fantastic and its not even done yet. I love the color.

Keep up the great work.


Terry

bkvette3

One word - beautiful

briankeery

Outstanding job, she's gonna be the baddest Vette in Calgary.

929nitro

Very nice.

kortensi

She looks amazing.

KO

chucksingh

great job you should be proud.

Quil

Insane

7T1vette

Dude! That's a work of art....

stinger12

Thanks guys. It turned out great, I couldn't be happier.

Tomorrow we spray the Baldwin motion stripe. I'll post pics in the next day or so.

76CSRvette

boy that car looks bad a** just as is. Almost to the finish line.

parkerracing

Only 11,000 views before half a million! DOABLE!

blue by you

I have been following your thread and watched your progress and let me tell you, you wrote the book on restoration. Great job it looks fantastic almost time to enjoy it. Pat yourself on the back for this.

Gerry

Smooth72

As can not be said enough, Looks great, love the flares, going to have to put them on my project. I like wide.... rears and I can not lie. Did I say it looks great.

7T1vette

As a matter of fact, with all the photos you took and the info you posted, you COULD write a book....or put a book together about "Building the Ultimate Corvette". With a cover photo of that car, you would sell a bunch of books!

hwcoop

Looks fantastic!, love the color.
Guess you won't be driving it up Deerfoot any time soon :-(

stinger12

No book guys... I have a career to focus on once this is finished!

The only reason it looks so good is because of everything Byron has taught me. I pretty much redid everything once I started apprenticing under him. That's why it has taken so long. This past week I took my vacation time to paint the vette...kind of sucks that I gave my annual summer vacation away with my friends, but it had to happen. Building a show car eats up ridiculous amounts of time. Especially the paint aspect of it.

I prepped the back of the car today for the stripe. Took the entire day.