New Paint Job

[Nick]

Alright, well after about two weeks of solid work on the car, the paint job is now finished. We stripped the whole car down to bare metal, and painted it like that. This is the second attempt at a paint job that we have worked on. The only problem we had was dust building up on the final gloss coat. We didn't have the best setup, painting it in a barn with a makeshift paint booth, but here are the photos, and I think it turned out really well. The colour is metallic Daytona blue. I've seen a car on this site that was Daytona blue and when it came time to paint it I decided that I wanted that colour.

[So Cal Mark]

wow, nice work. That puppy really shines!

[mdrburchette]

You did a great job and the color is beautiful.

[baltobernie]

Sweet!

(Nice looking Chevelle, too)

[DougC]

Beeeutiful!

[rlux4]

That is gorgeous Nick. Now you'll have to get those blue badges, like your avatar.
Ron

[azygoustoyou]

Great job Nick, you can come paint mine I'll build the barn

[narfire]

Great job, love that colour.. The smiles gona be that much bigger when you drive it now.

[Nick]

Haha thanks for the comments everyone. That Chevelle is my brother's, its not quite running up to par but my father and him are working on it, now that my car's pretty much done its his turn.

Ron I had actually thought about that. I've seen those blue badges on newer Fiats when I was in Europe. I don't know if the sizes match up at all, but is it possible to get blue ones that fit our spiders?

[rlux4]

I don't know. I just went ahead and bought a red car so my badges would match! Mark's got the side badges in all the colors, we just need him to work on getting the round badges in colors also.
Ron

[wengr]

looks really great, what type of paint is that?

[Fiat88]

Wow, great job, love the color!

[Nick]

The paint is from here:

http://www.tcpglobal.com/restorationshop/rsp2510.aspx


It was a great quality paint, worked very nicely, the only errors were due to our setup really, just some dust and overspray, typical painting issues, especially for newbies like us. It was base coat clear coat.

[Tappy]

here's a possible blue emblem to match the car :

http://cgi.ebay.de/Fiat-Chrom-Emblem-OR ... 7C294%3A50

[rlux4]

Whoa! I was being facetious, but that would look awesome.
Good one Tappy.
Ron