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its more of a nostalgic kind of cool not everybody will appreciate. 50+ yeas somebody could have changed things & it never happened.
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68 GTO 4-spd Convertible 78 S/E Trans am L78, WS6 Auto 78 S/E Trans am W72, WS6 Auto 79 10th aniv W72 Trans am 80 Indy pace car Trans am 89 Trans am GTA |
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Quarter almost ready for primer.
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#23
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Ready for block sanding
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#24
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Resto looks great!
I'm assuming you're going back to the original Solar Red when you do the paint. Curious to see what paint brand and how it turns out. |
#25
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I can't wait till I get to that point.
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#26
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Are you using the 3M dry guidecoat or is that just some flat black rattle bomb?
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-Jeremy 1968 GTO 4-spd convertible, console, factory gauges, hidden headlights, 3.90:1 posi, AM/FM radio. 1962 Catalina convertible, Starlight black w maroon interior & white top. |
#27
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Starlight black is the factory color. Interior I guess is called regimental red. |
#28
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I’m having it painted but I can find out what that coat is.
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#29
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GTO Starlight Black Paint code "A" is sourced as a Single-Stage using the Chrysler code "DX8" and Nason Ful-Thane Urethane 2k, -91 or -95. Gonna have my hood done (soon?) |
#30
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I think Webfoot was just talking about your block sanding process. Usually a guide coat is sprayed or rubbed on to make low spots & sand scratches stand out. Decades ago I used to add black acrylic or urethane to my primer darken the last coat of primer. Worked pretty well & was easy to do.
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68 GTO 4-spd Convertible 78 S/E Trans am L78, WS6 Auto 78 S/E Trans am W72, WS6 Auto 79 10th aniv W72 Trans am 80 Indy pace car Trans am 89 Trans am GTA |
#31
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OH SNAP. I must have missed the Starlight Black part. Sorry about that.
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#32
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Update
Moving along
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#33
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Update
More pics from this morning
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#34
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You are showing us pics of all the "easy" stuff ... how about door jambs, trunk lid bottom etc
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#35
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Lol yeah I know but I’m not a body guy so I get excited about everything moving forward.
Door jambs and trunk lid were dustless blasted and etch primed but nothing else done on them them. |
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Did I read on another thread that you are going to end up doing bc/cc with the Starlight? Was that your paint guys preference? Too late to go to single stage?
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#37
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My painter’s preference. He plans to use general or valspar base I think. He plans to do 4-5 thin coats of clear.
I had a 68 camaro with corvette bronze color bc/cc and 69 camaro fathom green bc/cc. I loved both but I’ve never had a single stage done. |
#38
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I'm sure it will look great when it's done. But if you end up parked next to a single stage black car, you'll see how much deeper black it will be. I agree on the other colors, I would have done bc/cc as well.
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I’d like to see a side by side black 68 in each. I’ve never actually see a black 68 in person anyway so I’m just off other black cars from the period. And honestly I don’t even know if I was looking at single or bc cc.
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#40
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For me ... with black, the difference has always seemed to be that with single stage the black appears to be right on the surface. With BC/CC it's like the black is under a slightly foggy piece of glass.
TV designers have been struggling with producing good blacks for decades ... you even see them advertised with "super black" etc. The human eye seems to be very sensitive to black as a color ... as opposed to black as an absence of light. |
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