Today was the start of the rejuvenation of my newly aquired 90 Turbo II. Its at 1-Day Paint & Body getting $1500 worth of paint and repairs as we speak, hopefully it will be done by Tuesday or Wednesday of next week. Untill then I shall stop by and take a few pictures of the process each day, and update you guys on here with PICTURES!! For those of you who didnt already know, I picked her up in Arkansas, and DROVE back to California. As for what they are doing to her, well it got bumped in the front from a tree!... but its not that bad, so sit back, relax and enjoy the pics!

 

Ooh, can't wait to see how this turns out. Keep the new color a surprise, just to add to the excitement. :p

 

I cant believe how fast he did all that repair... its DONE already!!! I stopped by the shop to give him the molding for the pass fender, and by then the shop was closed to the public but still open, and I was checking out my car... well all the front is pulled out already, with front bumper/support ON the car as well. The hood also had a dent in it from the front and thats done too... I was amazed. Tomorrow I will go back to check out the sanding/priming process, and take some more pics.

 

I don't know why Kumho discontinued those tires... they were the best. Oh, good luck on the paint too. Can't wait to see how it turns out.

 

I'm sittin on the edge of my chair, can't wait to see the end result!

 

Speak for yourself, im not too fond of these tires... they are crap compared to my Toyo Proxes 4 on my black TII, personally I wouldnt buy Kumho, but it came with the car. They squeel too much, break loose easily, and dont grip that great. Good for practicing drifting, but thats about it.

As for the paint, I would like to have went with black again, but thats just not my cup of tea, having the engine bay RED, and the car black... so I stuck with the factory color.

Sit tight, more pictures coming SOON!

 

Well, the repairs are finished, and the bodywork looks to be almost done. He informed me that he will start the paint on monday, so im guessing any final touch ups will be done tomorrow and prep'd for paint. I will go back on monday to check out the paint, and he said everything should be finished by Wednesday. So until then heres some more pictures of the bodywork!

 

I guess nobody cares about what a FC looks like without any flaws, and fresh paint...

 

i personally want to know, especially on a red one ( depends on wat color it will be afterwerds) since i have a red FC as well and also thinknig of a white or black paint job

 

I think you misunderstood me, im not going to change the color because I dont want to have a different color engine bay... it looks retarded. Thats why I kept it the factory red!

 

Good call deltron, I can't stand mismatched engine bays. It would be a lot more work to get the engine bay color changed to match as well. Can't wait to see the result.

 

AT LAST!!! my car is done! check it out!

 

painted!!

 

Wow! That is a sexy color! What color is it? And what brand do you use ppg?

Alex

 

Wow, that is a nice paint job. I'm looking to get one too, i hope it turns out just as nice!

 

I liked them because they were inexpensive. I know they're not the greatest, but for what they cost they did great.

Awesome red by the way. That thing looks outstanding!

 

Dude, that car came out CLEAN! Sweet paint job and repair job. Looks damn near new. Could we get a pic of the front section where the new bumper was spliced in, just to oogle while sitting here wishing we had money to make our cars that purdy

 

unfortunately I didnt take any before pictures myself, because I was so ashamed of how it looked, but I do have one that can show you the damage from before here...



once the site is back up and showing all pics without red X's you can goto http://gallery83626.fotopic.net/c238513_1.html and check out all the pics.

 

Did they shoot over the door handles??? That's gonna chip like mad on the rubber if they did... Besides that, it looks great! Nothing like arrest me red. hehe

 

yeah they did, its ok though, im going to replace all the rubber for the handles and rear tails, and hood, and all that good stuff so it looks all new!

 

Beautiful.

Red S5s are so damn sexy.

Can't wait to get mine re-painted.

 

Looks brand-new shiny... I'm sure we'd all like to repaint our cars but since old people like to back into me and punk @ss b@st@rds like to key shiny cars I'll pass. I'll leave the dents in it and just add a racing stripe for looks lol

 

 

Beautiful. Thanks for posting the process from A to B

 

yeah I am getting $3400 dollars today at closing on my condo. I have a ton of body work to be done on my vert but I hope when its all done it shines like that. Good job