Thanks everyone for these very kind comments. I still get goosebumps like we started the project yesterday knowing this project is tracking as well as it is.
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Originally Posted by transam1972
after seeing so much of the car painted, its looking real nice!..I do prefer it over Lucerne blue as it is a lighter blue..it will be really something to see a side by side comparison
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Originally Posted by 72projectbird
You know its funny, when this thread was created I thought this car was badass in the highest degree, but thought to myself "Is there gonna be a noticeable difference in color?"
Well after seeing those pictures, I cant believe how different it looks even with the two colors being so close together. It looks incredible!
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I agree, it is surprising how different the color is. And as has been mentioned here before, the mystery of why a custom ordered car would be painted another shade of blue (see post 76).
Steve and I have also been discussing how excited we are to see those black and white stripes on this color! Can hardly wait.
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Originally Posted by PONTIAC-ONE
As I see it, it looks very shiny, will it be left as painted or is it going through the whole wet sand/ buff process?
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PONTIAC-ONE, great question. The approach to the paint system that Muscle Car Memories and Steve is capable of is one of the primary reasons I knew this project was in good hands.
After deciding not to go lacquer, and given that a bc/cc system shows immediately as modern paint, it didn't take long to decide to optimize the benefit of bc/cc to create the best result possible vs. trying to make the bc/cc look like period paint or stopping short of maximizing the performance of bc/cc.
So (this is my personal preference)... a porcelain look became the target; flat as glass, striking color, and avoid having to look through the clear to find the color. To achieve this, sitting on top of two fresh coats of sealer that has been wetsanded, there are multiple color base coats that have been lightly wetsanded, a few mixed color/clear base coats, wetsanded and finally just right amount of Glamour clear coats that have been wetsanded with 800 to open up the paint for full cure.
That's how she sits now in the pictures posted.
Later, the other half of the work starts with wetsanding through increasing grits, followed by buffing with various products.