my girlfriend went to Hawaii for a week to visit family. so as a surprise i decided to respray her car while she was gone.
all work was done by myself in one week.
before




after a lil sanding and bodywork, new fenders jammed and on.




coat of filler primer


after sanding the primer




coat of epoxy sealer


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basecoat


3 coats of clear



hope she likes it.

 

all the trim, mirrors etc... repainted and back on. awaiting her arrival

 

I'm going on vacation for a few weeks so if you wanna stop bye....
Seriously though nice work, I bet you get a few old fashions out of that.

Justin

 

nice work! car looks great

 

Oh man sweet!! LOVE that you kept it claret too.

If I can, how much time did you have into it, and do you do paint/body work often? I'm thinking of painting a few of my own cars

 

It looks really good.
Are you going to 5-lug swap it next time she goes away?

 

Top effort

 

I have an FC I want to do the exact same thing to... Claret mica is it's factory color I believe.

 

i would have painted it neon green, see the real surprise on her face when she sees that after coming home from vacation!

nice work. even though i am not the biggest fan of the turd brown FC color, had an SE years ago with that color.. yuck.

 

awesome man! even the primer would be a few steps up from the way it was

 

i have about 30hrs of my time into it and i have been painting for about 18yrs
i am not really a fan of the color either.i only repainted it that because it was easiest and a rare color. as for the 5lug comment, i already picked up a set of crown vics for it. prob. gonna go with gold centers. just gotta get the 5lug stuff and tires now

 

bravo sir!

 

also i would have avoided the 2 stage, painters are engrained into selling 2 stage jobs because it gives them job security. it's also simpler than cutting paint but single stage jobs can be cut many many times if done right.

 

you cannot cut single stage metallic. you will sand the peaks of the metallic and it will look like total ****. you can only buff non metallic.

base/clear is the only way to go if you want to fix any mistakes.