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Posted by: yeahmag Oct 17 2016, 08:06 PM

Today I dropped the car off at the painter. He will be finishing/touching up the body work I've done. The next step will be to hand it back to me and I'll finish off the door jams and color/clear them myself, followed by a 400 grit wet sand of the body. Finally, back to the painter for color then clear.

This is a big day after almost 2 years on and off of prepping the car for this!

Posted by: mark04usa Oct 17 2016, 08:34 PM

Yeah, off to paint! Is this your '74? What color?

Posted by: yeahmag Oct 17 2016, 09:04 PM

Delphi Green L99A. Yup, it's a '74.

Posted by: tygaboy Oct 18 2016, 12:20 PM

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Posted by: 914 RZ-1 Oct 20 2016, 11:43 AM

QUOTE(yeahmag @ Oct 17 2016, 07:06 PM)

Today I dropped the car off at the painter. He will be finishing/touching up the body work I've done. The next step will be to hand it back to me and I'll finish off the door jams and color/clear them myself, followed by a 400 grit wet sand of the body. Finally, back to the painter for color then clear.

This is a big day after almost 2 years on and off of prepping the car for this!

Posted by: yeahmag Oct 20 2016, 11:46 AM

http://foreignmotorsbodyshop.com/

Ask for Dennis.

Phase 2 begins today! He's done with the minor finish work on the body. I'm taking it back to wet sand and spray the door jams myself. Phase 3 will be back to him for the final color/clear!!!

Posted by: yeahmag Oct 20 2016, 03:52 PM

Looks so straight!!! Now I get to finish sand and paint the door jams. Then back to the painter for the color and clear.

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Posted by: Alphaogre Oct 20 2016, 11:03 PM

I like how your exhaust dumps out the back...

Posted by: euro911 Oct 20 2016, 11:13 PM

Cool, Aaron

Hoping to get the '71 painted in 2017

Posted by: yeahmag Oct 26 2016, 07:23 PM

Blocking is hard work, but the dry guide coat helped a ton!

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Posted by: 396 Oct 27 2016, 08:26 AM

Congrats with your progress on getting your ride back in shape. I remember that day when your car got into a little bump.

Also, thanks for sharing the shop that your using....if it's good for you, I'm going to use them if I need some painting services too.
Enjoy Your day

Posted by: Montreal914 Oct 27 2016, 01:41 PM

Great progress!
Dennis does nice work. He did my friend's yellow bahama 68 911 (bad picture).
I'm hoping I can have him paint my project car at some point...
Good luck for the rest of your project.

Posted by: euro911 Oct 27 2016, 03:27 PM

My favorite color for a SWB 912

I was amazed at how many Bahama Yellow So Cal 912s (on the 912 BBS) there are. Several of them are real local to me.

Posted by: yeahmag Dec 4 2016, 10:53 PM

Painted and cleared the jams and the corresponding part of the doors today. Now I need to block the body one last time and then back to the painter.

Posted by: 914dave Dec 5 2016, 10:37 AM

Nice job! You're on the home stretch now. Delphi is a great color.

Posted by: yeahmag Dec 11 2016, 10:55 PM

Hopefully third prime is the charm. Get it? Get it…

Posted by: yeahmag Dec 11 2016, 10:56 PM

Prime and sand and prime and sand and...

Posted by: 914_teener Dec 11 2016, 11:22 PM

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Prime and sand and prime and sand and...

Posted by: yeahmag Dec 11 2016, 11:29 PM

Nope! Autocross only for this one. I need to find something cheaper to hit hay bails with. Plus, the shifter and the TAG are way faster...

Posted by: yeahmag Jan 23 2017, 09:33 PM

Back to the body shop for some finishing touches and color! Excited!

Posted by: yeahmag Jan 24 2017, 07:57 PM

Here she is in the booth!

https://www.facebook.com/ForeignMotorsBodyShop/videos/1231763050226493/

Posted by: turk22 Jan 24 2017, 08:20 PM

nice! looks awesome....

Posted by: Andyrew Jan 25 2017, 12:18 AM

Looks good! Congrats!

Posted by: euro911 Jan 25 2017, 12:44 AM

What happened to your ext. mirror holes?

Posted by: yeahmag Jan 25 2017, 10:51 AM

They are still there. Something about the video makes it look like they are gone.

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Posted by: jor Jan 26 2017, 11:13 AM

Love the color!

Posted by: euro911 Jan 26 2017, 11:14 AM

Aaron, did they paint inside the headlight buckets?

I removed all the guts on our '71 ... but the headlight frames need refreshed anyway ...

Posted by: yeahmag Jan 26 2017, 11:19 AM

Nope. They probably would have if I took it all apart and prepped it.

Posted by: Dion Jan 26 2017, 12:05 PM

Cool colour. Never saw that colour in person. Looks metallic?
Good luck with the rest of assembly.

Posted by: yeahmag Jan 26 2017, 12:07 PM

It is. L99A Delphi Green (metallic)

Posted by: flyer86d Jan 26 2017, 01:04 PM

Very nice!

Posted by: jmitro Jan 26 2017, 01:18 PM

nice!
the culmination of lots of hard work