This project has taken us over 5 weeks now. My dad and I put about 60 hours of prep time into the car but its begining to seem worth it. I realize that there has been quite a few of these threads lately but I felt I had to share what has consumed so much of my time and sanity.

We rented a booth and my dad painted it himself. There was a thirty minute drying period between the base and clear coat, afterwhich we baked it at 145 degrees F.

All in all the final cost came out to be about $750 Cdn.

 

is that including the cost to rent the booth

 

The booth cost $200 to rent and yes, it is part of the $750.

 

what is the waiting period between primer and base coat?

 

The only primer that we used was over where we had used feather filler. That took about a couple of hours to harden but we did that at home the night before it was painted. If you read the side of the primer can it will tell you its drying times.

 

Is that Tornado Silver? Looks good. Just need to wet sand it with 1500-2000 and polish.

 

Its actually warm gray with course metalic. Also I intend to wet sand it but I think I'm going to take a break from sanding for a little while.

 

Good idea.

I'm about to wet sand a car I've painted for the first time in a few weeks... up until now the finish has been smooth enough to not need it (racecars dont tend to keep their paint for very long...)

Looks good! I'm always pleased when there are threads where people paint their own cars. Whether or not it's cheaper than taking it to Maaco, it's always inifinitely higher quality than the crap those places roll out.

 

Agree'd, Post pics with it completely put back together, I would love to see how it looks with everything back on it, and the sun shinin on the paint

 

Very clean car.

 

Okay, here are the latest pics that I've taken today. The car is mostly re-assembled accept for the trim around the windsheild (since the old clips that held them in place all broke and I need to order new ones) and a few of the emblems (haven't cleaned them yet). Also I haven't waxed the car, I'll probably wait till I have a free weekend for that.

 

i've always said .. do it right the first time and you won't regret it nice job