Ok, its been stripped, primed, settled, and NOW ITS PAINTED!

all in its original colour! the shine and finish are better than factory!







Just Look at that shine!!



the quality of work is amazing! more updates when they are done!

 

It's funny that with all the lights and molding off that S3 looks closer to an SA than anything else! The colour is really nice, K3 is it? Same as mine... wow what a difference! How much did that cost ya?

Jon

 

Looks great! Hey take some closeups of that black RX-4...... that looks sweet!

 

that looks sweet btw is that an rx4 i thot it looked like some v8 muscle car....looks good still

 

Nice Job!

Did you paint the black window frames on the doors? How did you cover the gas tank when painting in there? Just an old gas cap?

~T.J.

 

All black parts, door frames etc, and the A pillar will be repainted black. the fuel filler has been masked up. the cars original colour is silver and was in good condition already.

total cost so far $10,000 (for the paint)

 

Wow, look like very quality work thus far. Can't wait to see more pictures.

 

wow, that's some hefty-priced, quality paint there. Not sure if I'd splurge for a $6500 (USD) paint job, but damn - more power to you

 

im in sydnney too.. where did u get it resprayed and how much

 

NICE! I absolutely love that shade of silver.

 

oh nm 10k?

um..

is that a typo?

4.5k is the most youll pay for a job like that

 

its done by Custombodyworks at padstow, in the same complex as PAC. Danny also paints all the PAC cars.

But it has been taken back to bare metal, lead wiped, the full job. and painted by Danny himself! so for $10K its well worth it!
it will be a show winner with this paint job!

and of course, for its first outing after a complete resto, Wakefield park raceway for a few laps!

 

not 10k$us, surely....?

but very pretty nonetheless.

 

nahhh $10K AUD or about $6K US

 

Yeah - I posted the $6500 USD amount earlier.

No, I don't just sit around and memorize exchange rates. I just grabbed the latest exchange rates and did a quick conversion. (OS X's built-in calculator has some nifty functions )

 

Yeah, that doesn't sound so bad...

For a bumper-to-bumper professional paint job on my car, the exact same colour, it's gonna be $4000 CDN. That's all exterior. Not inside the engine bay, or underside of the hood or the underneath of the car... Not on the inside under the carpet either. Just bumper to bumper, down to the metal as you see it.

$2800USD for that. So if you count the interior of the engine bay and whatnot (and if they charged for engine removal, taking off the side striping etc... ) then it *easily* falls in the 6gUSD category. I mean just think... They have to sand it, prime it, sand it again, put the metallic speckal gold underlay, sand it, base-coat it, sand it, clear coat, buff it, and charge you for it!

Jon