new pics of my car back from paint

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bnickel

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hey guys i got the car home from paint this week so i thought i would post up some new photos in the gallery. i've still got a lot of work to do yet, but it shouldn't be too long i hope. let me know what y'all think. here is a link

http://www.1969stang.com/gallery/bnickel69gt?page=1

 

danewers

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looks sweet man!! i love the color. reminds me of when i picked my car up from being painted last year. as for you, now comes the fun part! reassembly!

 

dolfan87

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A guy gets his car painted, posts up pics, and the poor dude only gets one reply?!

Come on folks, where is the love!

It's Acapulco blue even!

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69 Capecod

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Hey bnickel

Looks Great this is the next step for my car when the weather breaks around here.
Did you have it completly striped to bare metel then painted? Do you have before pics? Did you remove all the parts yourself? I need to build my grage befor I can start mine.

 

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Looks sweet! I see you got your GT stripe in plce too. Is all your metal pieces recromed and polished? (Or less expencive... baught new) Nothing ruins a nice paintjob as much as bad chrome! If not, do it, it's what your GT deserves.

 

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i stripped it down as far as i could. i removed all the trim, the interior, the fenders basically everything that was bolted to the outside of the car came off. the body shop handled all the paint stripping stuff, they sanded it down to bare metal and removedall traces of the old paint, bondo etc.

i do have new bumpers and a few other small chrome prices are new. most of the stainless trim has been polished but i still have a bunch that i need to polish yet. some of the chrome will have to wait a bit untill i can get some more money saved up so for now i will put the best of the old chrome together with a few extra pieces i have and make it look as good as possible for now, i have a few pieces i need to have re-chromed as well so it's all a matter of time and money from heren out.

thanks for all the compliments guys, it's been 20 years since tha car had an actual paint job on it, most of that time it was in primer with a couple of really cheap paint jobs thrown in for extra sanding down the road

 

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69 Capecod

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No progress PICS.

 

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bnickel

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i have some but they are on some kind of old fashioned cellulite picture storage membrane and i haven't figured out how to download them to the computer yet. one day i'll borrow a frinds scanner and post some but probably won't be soon, though.

 

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very very nice, I cant wait for that day. Though, my bank account can

 

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Hey bnickel

Is that the same as my coupe I cant tell by the pics.

 

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bnickel

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pretty close, i think your car is winter blue though

 

zookeeper

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Very, very nice! Man that thing is straight!

 

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bnickel

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thanks zoo, it wasn't quite so straight when it went in the shop, but it wasn't as bad as i was expecting once they got it all stripped down.

 

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Nice!! This just makes me even more anxious to get started on my fastback.
Stupid job!! Sending me all over the place for long periods of time!!

Maniac!

 

darkness falls

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looks ok.

 

Route666

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Nice!!