Ghetto Car Paint, Better than Maco Options

[celicaboy04]

Hows it going all. Been bored so I thought I would make a post of my progress. Back in December I made the mistake of letting my live-in (<-first mistake! lol) girlfriend take my car to dance practice and she got it into a wreck

A ford ranger smashed into the right fender and destroyed the fender and tore a gaping hole into the doors skin.

I could not afford a body shop to do repairs so I undertook the task myself. I purchased some z3 fenders and a scrap yard door from east coast. I began to look at my paint job and the clear coat was fading, there were scratches all over, and to top it off in Februrary I went to a party and some punk **** kid kicked a dent in the passenger side of the car.

So starting at the end of February, I made a ghetto make shift shop outside my grandmas place (I live in an apt and cant do it here) and began stripping my car apart, sanding, and doing the body work.

I have never done ANY of this before and just PLUNGED head first into it.

I started painting the actual color of my car and heres the result so far:

I still have to color sand and polish it, then clear coat it, then all I have left is the bumpers and sideskirts which wont take nearly as long (maybe a week to do the rest)

Is it the best paint job? No. Am I happy? Yes. Like I said it is the very first attempt Ive ever made at bodywork and I went full out. It is a Jet Black paint from house of kolor, the pictures dont really do it justice its NICE I like it a lot. When I complete the entire car Ill post some pics.

I did this for all the poor college guys out there that cant afford body shops and arent body work pros!

This post has been edited by celicaboy04: Apr 22, 2005 - 1:51 AM

[celicaboy04]

Why arent the image links working?

[Blakout16]

www.photobucket.com will be your friend
whats ur aim? i wanna see em! lol

This post has been edited by Blakout16: Apr 22, 2005 - 1:46 AM

[celicaboy04]

[Blakout16]

the body doesnt look straight

[Hanyo]

the body doesnt look straight
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how can you tell?

[celicaboy04]

The body is straight, its just the reflection of the flash in the paint and the stuff in the background.

This post has been edited by celicaboy04: Apr 23, 2005 - 12:52 AM

[vangSTa_celica]

That looks like my green.

[Blakout16]

oh okayy... i didnt take into account the background and such but i dunno

[95gtschick]

yeah something looks a little off balance...

[Junior]

are you using the 5th clear turn signals?

[soltrain]

SWEET! Lets hear it for poor college students! Mad props for doin all that with no experience, takes balls. What are you using to spray the paint?

[celicaboston1983]

I dont think its looks bad i kind of like it . should see what I did to my car with a spray can hahahah.

[celicaboy04]

Im using a finishline 3 by devilbiss and house of kolor jet black. Currently wet sanding and buffing so ill post more pics when I do that and clear it and paint the kit and all that.

And for the turn signals Ill be using the ones from pro car parts.

[dustin15brown]

Good job man, keep us posted

[97sccelica]

took it all the way down to the metal

thats a pain in the ass. i did it to my 260z, it took forever.

[ArizonaRed]

why does your car look like its gunmetal? I think the black looks silverish.

[pxcr440]

what did you strip the car with cause it looks like you used a grinder judging from the patern in the metal , and if you did i hope you useded lots of surfacer ,, props for doing it yourself

[CelicaSTX02]

its not bad, not better than maaco though.......There are some maaco shops that does really really good work. My friend works at one and his paintjobs are awesome for a good price. Good work though, how much is it costing you so far to do everything yourself???

[Blakout16]

i still think they're is something wrong with it... i just dont like the way its looking :-/ i mean great paint job and all but the surface just looks odd.