One Piece At A Time....just Like Dave!

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Getting ready to paint my SSP Coupe back to the original Royal Blue. It may look like I'm painting it one piece at a time... @Davedacarpainter style, but I'm not. Well, not really. i did paint my trunk lid today, but only to kind of get my feet under me with the paint gun before I tackle the rest of the car. Under the trim, and the quarter windows is beautiful original blue paint, just like when I sold the car in 2001. (for those who don't know I bought this car new, sold it in 01 and bought it back a few months ago off craigslist) I really hate doing body work, luckily this car has remained pretty darn straight over the last 16 years.

Under the trim original paint



teardown in progress





Base coat



Cleared

 

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Good Job Chris. Getting after it, huh?

 

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My wife is on a trip. Trying to get it done before she gets back. She doesn't like paint fumes......me, I LOVE the smell of fresh paint.

 

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Mstng93SSP said:

me, I LOVE the smell of fresh paint.

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Man people in my neighborhood would have a fit if I painted in my garage! Stupid HOA! Can't even pressure wash a T5 in the driveway without getting talked to by the HOA president.
Looks good!

 

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I'm technically not supposed to either, but I live on a small street and we all have been neighbors for 15+ years. No one complains.

 

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Getting serious....

 

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I have a question. I want to (and am going to) paint the doors off the car. Is the window frame strong enough to hang the doors by or will it bend? I have two big hooks screwed into the studs in the ceiling of my garage. I was thinking of hanging the doors by use if rope around the top of the window frame to the hooks. Good? Bad? Other ideas? Thanks

Chris

 

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Have you torn the doors down? If so, yes, it's plenty strong.

Truthfully it'll probably be ok even with the guts in it. It would just make me paranoid.

 

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Doors are complete minus the door panels.

 

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Doors are complete minus the door panels.

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I bet it would still be ok Chris.

 

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I'm certainly no Dave, but for $350 in materials and nothing more than my time I can live with it.

 

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Hey @Davedacarpainter , what if I did the jams of the door, bolted them back on, wrapped the entire car in plastic and then painted the doors on the car? Would that be better?

 

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Mstng93SSP said:

Hey @Davedacarpainter , what if I did the jams of the door, bolted them back on, wrapped the entire car in plastic and then painted the doors on the car? Would that be better?

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I don't see anything wrong with that but shooting clear on the bottom side of the door will be more difficult but not impossible.

 

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Yeah, I was thinking about that. I can put the car up on ramps.

 

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Mstng93SSP said:

Yeah, I was thinking about that. I can put the car up on ramps.

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That will help a lot. At least with painting the doors on the car you won't have to worry about mounting them after being painting which increases the risk of scratching your fresh paint.

 

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Mstng93SSP said:

Hey @Davedacarpainter , what if I did the jams of the door, bolted them back on, wrapped the entire car in plastic and then painted the doors on the car? Would that be better?

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It would be far easier on you when you go to reinstall the doors, you won't be so worried about nicking the paint.

I just do mine all at once because i've got all the resources to paint them easily like that.

Edit: Just noticed the rest of the replies, so i'm a bit redundant.

 

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Thanks guys. Looks like that will be the plan.

 

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I love it when people dive in head first. That's beautiful work, and a beautiful color. Come do mine when you are done.

Kurt

 

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Thanks. You can totally tell it's a "garage amateur" paint job but I'm ok with that. Just wanted it to look good enough to take out, yet not have to worry about a scratch or ding in a high dollar paint job.

 

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