Sunday, June 11, 2006

In Living Color

That's right, the long-awaited Paint Day has come! After nearly six months of stripping, cutting, welding, filling, curing, filling, sanding, curing, waiting, sanding, priming, block sanding, re-priming, reblocking, and re-priming, the car got into color! And not just any color, but a custom pearl two-tone! Enuf said, I'll let the photos speak for themselves, with the one qualifier that these photos show a bit of orange peel because the paint was still wet and hasn't had a final color-sanding and buffing yet.
Here's a little before and after for your perusal..







Lastly, these photos don't do the Pearl job justice, so here's a closeup...

1 Comments:

At 6:00 PM, Blogger tao1776 said...

God Damnnnnnnnn! Impressed by what you're doing.
I have a 1973 Coupe. Rather rare in Massachusetts. You can see on my blog
http://volksbloggin-in-new-england.blogspot.com/
that I'm trying to lure the VW's out of the woodwork. I attend several all VW air cooled shows and I'm trying to have them join me in attending some of the cruise nights that saturate our area.

 

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