After a 3 month ordeal, my rear wide body conversion is done. I had the hardest time getting the paint to match. I took it to a well recommended painter in Corona Ca and he had the panels for 7 weeks! My c6 is a Monterey Red and in California everyone has to use water based paints. Anyway, he put a tri coat on (base, tinted clear, clear) and it was just way off. The sidecast made the panels look like a flat pink. It was just horrible. The only solution he could come up with was to paint the entire back half of the car to match. No way was I doing that since it would still look pink when viewed from an angle.

I bit the bullet and went to another shop, Alchemy in Corona and met Scott Beetler, the president. He thought they could do better. I took my panels back off and after a few days I picked up the panels. When I got them on the car, they were better, but the sidecast was still off. Scott got his paint rep in and we all met. The paint rep took my original panels to color match. He ended up sending a sample to Milan, Italy. Turns out the GM water based code isn't right and now, the paint company is formulating the correct paint. In the meantime, they shot the panels with a solvent based candy that is almost perfect. My rear end is darker than the rest of the car but that was expected. The panels do match the rest of the car.

I can't say enough about the service I got from Alchemy. Scott's attitude about getting it right was refreshing. I didn't get any crap about "let's just blend it". I highly recommend them.

And yes, I know this thread is useless without pics. I'll get some posted.

Larry

 

Cool and looking forward to the pictures

 

SHEEESH ... Think ... take pix THEN post

 

 

Looking forward to the pics, sometimes not only is Black nicer to look at, it matches first time everytime.

 

Fail.

 

I wish I lived in cali, becuase THATS the kind of shop we all want to find and work with! Keep his number, you'll likely have a hard time finding another one like that.