Things got out of hand! Repainted my GTO.

[Justins00ss]

So this is going to be a pic heavy thread. Lets start back at the beginning of August. I had bartered for a 3pc spoiler for my 2006 GTO with a buddy. It needed some work and a repaint but I`m more than willing to handle it myself.


So I got to work. Fixed some issues and got it in primer.

Once in primer I blocked with 320 wet and 600 wet. Then sprayed with Martin Senour base and Finish 1 740 High Solids clear. Once cured it was damped sanded with Mirka Abralon disks and polished out.

Then I mounted it and enjoyed the results

Here`s where I went off my rocker. I decided to just disassemble the car and do a full repaint lol. Overall the car was very straight but with 165k miles it had road rash and thin spots starting to show in the clear.

Then I had the glass pulled so I wouldn`t have tape lines around the windows. Also took care of some minor issues with sanding with 320 and 600. Also some 2k urethane filler primer in spots.

Once the main body was sanded with 320 and 600 wet I focused my attention to the bumpers and side skirts. The front bumper needed a bunch of sanding and flexible filler for the deeper scrapes underneath.

Then sprayed with 2k urethane filler primer and wetsanded with 320 and 600

Then I started on the hood.

I refinished and painted the underside too

Rear bumper painted

Up until here things were going pretty well. Then on the last little section of sanding and polishing the rear bumper I burned it. Just shows ya anything can happen.


This is after feathering out the repair area.

Luckily I only needed to dust some color on it after sanding and reclear the top section as there was a nice body line to break up.


Then I realized that the lower valance for the rear bumper was tattered and needed repainting.

After

 

[Justins00ss]

Next it was go time. My boy Brian who`s a painter came down to help mask and paint the main body.

Then the fun stuff began. Damp sanding and polishing the car. Damp sanding was done with my PC7424 and PXE80. Mirka abralon 800 grit, 1k,2k,3k,4k
3M Trizact 5k and 8k


Polishing with BOSS G21, BS uro wool slow speed and M100. Finished with IGL F1 and yellow foam. This high solids clear is like concrete. It ate up disks.

These finished pics are bare paint. No coating etc until fully cured

 

[GearHead_1]

What a great guy to have around.

 

[Sizzle Chest]

You`re a madman! Excellent!!!

 

[wannafbody]

Looks great. How many coats of clear?

 

[Justins00ss]

Looks great. How many coats of clear?

1 tack coat and 3 medium/wet coats

 

[JSFM35X]

Wow just wow. Didn’t even wait for winter ! You go.

 

[Lonnie]

Time for a "GoFundMe" campaign so you can have a hi-tech paint booth in that new barn/shop of yours.
By chance, were you listening to The Fixx`s "One Thing Leads to Another" `80`s song when you started painting the spoiler??
Excellent workmanship.


Cannot believe that you have a 165,000 miles on such a vehicle. Hard to consider it a "daily driver", but then again, cars are meant to be driven.

 

[The Driver]

Epic!

 

[TonesGTO]

Car looks amazing, my 05 has half the miles but being in Florida, I`m getting to the same point where it will need paint. I don`t know about Torrent Red but my clear on Cyclone Grey is so soft it scratches just looking at it.

 

[bobfic]

A man on a mission..nice work..LS2..was a motor in its time...fast car

 

[William_Wallace]

Awesome work looks great. I would love to be able to do that

 

[Justins00ss]

Thanks guys.

 

[Merlin]

Absolutely awesome!

GREAT job!