As bought about 5 years ago
About 3 years ago, after buying a donor 94 and switching bumpers wheels, etc.. Painted bumpers with spray can red, painted spoiler, headlight hoods, wheels and gas tank door plastic dip black. Wow, looked so good.
Then a short period of bad luck. A chinese girl, not looking, bumps me from the rear. Another chinese lady, backs into my right rear fender. A man, again not looking, backs into my right front, breaking right signal lense. next was my fault, something in garage falls on the left front fender. i love the original paint, but all fenders and bumpers need re-paint. Stupid me, I decide to re-paint myself. I had some left over white autmotive paint, i added black, making a silver color. My silver paint job was terrible, I guess my compressor didnt have enough air storage, so caused water drips. one fender, not enough paint, could see the original paint. I decided to sand and try to re-paint, My second paint job was worse than the first (all sanding grooves were visable). The second paint job had to go, this time I sanded and scraped paint down to bare metal. Primered the bare metal. This time, a professial. Most local body shops didnt even want to give me estimates, but i found one guy who said he would paint for $500. (he had running post in CL). I told him to take his time, i was not a a hurry. I was not expecting much. I only wanted a decent looking car. Here is what is got.