new paint and body work
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From: Simi valley Ca
new paint and body work
a car backed into me a couple of weeks ago. so i took the opertunity to do some custom work.. painted it flat black but i gave the paint a tad bit of texture so its more like a teflon coating.. i smoothed out the rear corvette and the front bumper... also did some swued work ...
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Looks good! I think you should put some suede over the lower door panels as well to complete the look! 
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I love the suede look on the inside. That is awesome looking. I would love to do this to mine. How hard was this? Maybe not the roof so much but the lower dash panels and across the doors some. Nice work.
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From: Simi valley Ca
ill get som pics of the bumper for you... it wasnt hard i did all this in my garage! and i am not abody and paint guy... you just have to us a polyurathan body filler.. normal body filler (bondo) will crack... the stuff i got was $45 bucks but it drys hard as a rock and you can bend it with out it cracking... front took me about 6 hours... wasnt to hard...
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I saw your car when I was driving in Wood Ranch last week. I definitely had to do a double take as you were driving in the other direction. Your car looks great!
A couple cars ahead of you was another C5 that made me throw up in my mouth a little. It had a GIANT wing and some nasty looking racing stripes. So it was a nice relief to see your car about 20 seconds later cause that other car just about ruined my day
A couple cars ahead of you was another C5 that made me throw up in my mouth a little. It had a GIANT wing and some nasty looking racing stripes. So it was a nice relief to see your car about 20 seconds later cause that other car just about ruined my day