mad pad house

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mad pad house

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LeMans Pete

Great looking '69. Did you paint the rocker panels orange as well?

mad pad house

Painted the rockers orange and left the black edge on the trim.

LeMans Pete

I like it, good touch.

doorgunner

My eyes.......my wittle eyes!!!!!!!!!!

Great looking colors!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

mad pad house

My wife said to paint it like a Hot Wheel.So I did.Life is too short not to have a little fun.

Les

It looks great! You'll get a lot of compliments and attention with that beauty.

Tudz

That looks awesome! I typically just like single colour cars, but that really does look nice.

vettebuyer6369

The license plate... I have to ask...

mad pad house

No not an orig. The car was left to me by a close friend that had it for over 30 years.Cancer got him about 5 years ago.The engine was put together back in the late 70's all GM numbered L88 parts when no one wanted the parts for pennies on the dollar.You know that gas was almost $1.00 a gallon and who wanted to have such low gas mileage.The plate is a tribute to my freind,his family and his car.

oldschoolvette

looks awesome

Vetteman Jack

Car looks great. Love the color and the stripes.

dmaxx3500

well,open the hood

Racer C3

Spectacular! My dream car. Well done.

mad pad house

Just can"t do it yet.Too much of a mess from the paint shop.Needs a real cleanng.

Mod75

I like the L88 hood with the black paint pattern, nice paint job.

68/70Vette

Well, we'd all like to know how much $$. I can understand a reluctance to quote a price since with a forum environment, whatever you said you paid, trolls will come out of the woodwork to say you paid too much, their cousin Bernie would have done it for less.

Any details as to the preps your body needed for the paintwork? Removing original paint? removing all chrome? etc.

First of all what kind of paint did you use? Here in the People's Republic of California, we have to use water based paint. I need to paint my 68 Corvette. It's now painted with an overly aged lacquer paint. So the interest in the paint used. If worse came to worse, I would contemplate driving the car to Nevada or Arizona for painting. The MacDonald Douglas aircraft factory in Long Beach, Ca, used to fly DC-10's to Texas for painting.

Looks great!! Now all of us want to know the details!!! As for the nice posting....No good deed goes unpunished!!

Thanks

mad pad house

I did the strip sand and bodywork myself.Ground out all the seams and used West system epoxy and glass to refill.Took about 14months.When it came to paint,I am not a painter so I went looking,most shops would see dollars in their eyes at the mention of a corvette ranged from 5-7gs.I was told about a small local shop and went to see them,2 corvettes,T-Bird and a number of other cars in the lot.His attitude was a corvette was just like any other car used epoxy primer,sandable sealer,base coat paint 3 coats of clear coat.The cost went up with the use of the Peal Orange.He did not rush the job it was in the shop about 3 weeks.The paint is oil base,he does not use water born,very old school does not like it.After paint I put everything back together cost $2000.