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| Tweet Topic Started: Jul 10 2010, 11:54 AM (223 Views) | |
| Slash | Jul 10 2010, 11:54 AM Post #1 |
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Well my Car is the original paint from 88. And i want to keep as much of the integrety of it as i can. but there are portions of the car that had been spray painted over blemmishes thanks to the previous owner. - being 18 and jobless i obviously can't afford a decent full-body paint job and i'd never go to maaco, and i really wanna try to save as much as the original paint as i can. is there a way to just prep and paint the parts that were spray painted over and get the new paint to blend w/ the old to match. - parts of the car that were sprayed over. - The hatch and the roof behind the ttops on the passenger side(this has a distinct line between the 2 paints...gotta love masking type -.-) ![]() And then the obvious spray over on the dent in the front fender. ![]() Just tryin to get ideas i probably wouldn't be doin this for a while til i get enough to buy new decals neways tho since it's obvious the fender's paint wouldnt last the hammering out. I know a guy who would fix the fender for small amount $ but he says since it's crunched wouldn't be fixed fully. Either way if i bought a fender or had this one fixed would have to paint entire fender so i'd need new decals. not gonna have one fender missing a stripe. rather have it symetrical - I asked a few shops and they all said they couldn't do it and one said it would be VERY exspensive since they'd have to blend the pieces to match old paint. thoughts? |
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| gp90gta | Jul 10 2010, 12:05 PM Post #2 |
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Yes you can spray one panel at a time but to get it to match is the hard part, it wont be 100% but I've seen some really faded older car come to my shop and we have painted them you can definitely tell its been painted but who cares as long as your happy with it , I say do it and remember that you'll need to blend it to the other panels |
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| admin_glen | Jul 10 2010, 03:14 PM Post #3 |
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Wet sand her. That's what I did. Then polish it up |
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| charged355 | Jul 11 2010, 03:51 AM Post #4 |
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No and no. It needs new paint and unless your gonna do a new bc/cc type of paint your jus pissing in the wind, and by wind I mean a huricane. |
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| iroc-z86 | Jul 11 2010, 01:06 PM Post #5 |
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yea man i dont think it will look to good i would just leave it for now and save up the money and get the whole car repainted it will look 100 times better and is alot easyer in the long run |
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