Getting a full repaint to get rid of the orange peel... so that includes the SHR louvers. I love black cars that look like glass, so I'm paying extra to have a full repaint done. They say it'll be ready Friday... I think that's ambitious... I say early next week.

-danny

 

Yeah, don't rush it. Good for you man, and good luck.

 

I'm saddened and yet also excited at seeing your car like that. I can't wait to see it completed.

 

This will look unbelievably awesome when you are finished. I am really itching for you to finish and take million photos and post them up. Just to let you know

 

You and me both Buck! I will take a bazillion and 1 pics I think

-danny

 

Wouldn't happen to have purchased an extra Foose ducktail when you found your's did ya?

 

No, sorry, I only had the opportunity for that one, and my source has dried up.

-danny

 

the saddest part is that there are so many looks that I would love to go with for this car.... I simply have a very hard time deciding which direction to go. Your car is definately one of the directions that I would have enjoyed to experiment with a bit.

 

Well today the body is in the booth. They say they'll start clearcoat after lunch. Nice to see progress being made!













More to follow.....
-danny

 

They cleared it this afternoon. Overall it looks good. I can see that the edge of the doors is heavy and has a noticeable lip to it, and there are some fisheyes in areas around the car. They assure me they will buff out, but I was told this on my old stick on louvers and they didn't buff all the way out. And the lip is pretty big in my opinion. So you paint gurus out there, what can be buffed out and what can't be? I should have take some close ups of those areas, but didn't think of it.

Here's the car post-clear:









-danny

 

I had a motorcycle gas tank returned to me that had beads of clear dripping off of it and looked horrible, fisheyes, etc. (long story, I got in a fight w/ the bodyshop guy doing my work and he returned it unfinished). Well, after some wetsanding/buffing it came out looking 100% perfect. Hang in there, let them do their thing.

 

How did they prep your hood? did they prime and bake the hood? How many time they shoot the primer and how many time did they bake your hood? Any issue with the hood? any comment about the hood from your body shop? Thnx

 

So far the only things they've said about the hood is that it had a lot of pinholes. I know that it sat on the car for 2 weeks out in the sun prior to them beginning to block it. I don't know if it has been 'baked' or not. I'll ask more about it today.

-danny

 

Well today was the original due date... and as you can see in the photos, there's no way it will be ready before next week sometime. Things are finally progressing, but I guess perfection takes time.

Got to see a Ford GT parked behind it today... nice car!

Fabricating correct mounting brackets for the CDC billet grille to work with the Shelby CS6 front fascia:






Two beauties together:



Yesterday pre-wetsand:









-danny

 

very nice car , love the color,black should be like glass ,

 

The front facia is a nice alternative the the popular GT500 and GT/CS ones used so often. Be interesting to see it done. So far so good.

Any plans on going FI?

 

You should have had them cover the vents by the windshield. When you turn on your A/C it will smell like a body shop and probably blow some shop dust in your car. Why did they remove the doors?

 

+ 1 why were the doors removed?

 

the removed the doors so that they could get edge of the front fender and rear where it meets the door jam to blend correctly.

I trust them, as they work on a lot of high end cars, so I feel they know what they're doing.

-danny

 

How much did painting the whole thing cost?