65 GTO

[Thumpin455]

Found a most important part that was MIA when I got the rolling heap of rust. The ever so required yet virtually unknown brake light switch. Spent a few hours going around with a tornado warning looking for alignment shims, even hit up a junk yard. Looks like I have to order some. Fun times. Started the wet sanding, its coming out nice. Have three spots I need to fix, dab a little base, then dab some clear, and wait. Thankfully they're not in an obvious spot. 600 today, 800 then 1200 tomorrow. Might as well make it nice and flat, right? Lots to do before I can drive it, but it's not like I have much else to do since it rained all day and I need this thing done.

More pictures tomorrow.... Hopefully I don't buff a hole in the paint.

[Mater]

blue looks nice


but i am going to be weird and say i liked the cream yellow color better no idea why

[JOES66FURY]

I truly, deeply, whole heartedly, hate butternut yellow or any other color in that spectrum...not that it looked bad...but it makes me think of baby shit after they had too much milk....

[Shelty]

I liked the yellow, but this new color its pretty sweet too.

[Thumpin455]

The yellow was not for me, that is the second to last color I would ever paint something for myself. I think pink would be the absolute last I would paint for me. I like this blue, and it is looking great as I am cutting and buffing it. Found a neat trick for getting rid of runs. You slather some filler on the run, then sand all the filler off. The run goes with it. I was amazed that I didn't cut through the paint doing it, but damn was that easy to fix.

Anyway, it is REALLY REALLY ugly right now, but damn if that hood doesn't look SWEEEET. My heavy cutting compound isn't very heavy, so I have to keep sanding with 2000 grit to get all the scratches out from the cut, damn lot of work let me tell ya.. It has to look like shit before it looks great. This car has looked like shit most of the last 30 years.

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[Deaf Bob]

One must first hit "rock bottom" before things "look good" Or "look up" .
Might not look as good as it did a few hours ago..it will look better when you are "done".
You will get there!

[Thumpin455]

The heavy stuff is done, found lots of little things wrong, but ya know what? Its a freakin driver, not a show car. I'll deal with them later, but it is annoying having something messed up.













And its deep too! My friend I am doing the Cutlass for said its a nod to Michelangelo, "Touched by the hand of Todd"

[Deaf Bob]

Could shave using that as a mirror!
I like that hood!

[Thumpin455]

More sanding, more buffing, more buffing, and then more buffing, then some assembly. Gotta be careful how I take pics of you will see my ugly mug and break your monitors. This is the worst panel on the car, missed some dents and feather edges. Oh well, its a driver.

[Thumpin455]

Yeah I need to wash it now. In time....

[Deaf Bob]

Older guy at school had a Goat like this.. Black with white interior, 389-4 speed-4 barrel..
So always had a bit of a drool fest for one but NOT white interior!

[Thumpin455]

White interior is not my first choice, but when you find a car with an original interior in good shape, close to you, for less money than the entire repop interior would be, you use it.

[RideTech_Ryan]

That paint looks deep! great job.

[Thumpin455]

Thanks Ryan, I was surprised how easy it was to shoot it.

The bumpers are going on shortly, and I have the stuff I need to put the swaybars on, then its glass and little stuff to driveable...

[Thumpin455]

I like the white with the blue, no idea why, it just gets it for me. I might be getting old or something.