QUOTE(Kargeek @ May 20 2004, 09:50 PM)
I painted mine-a complete color change ( single stage paint) on a bare shell car with all of the inside parts like the trunks and engine compartment in a home made spray booth in my shop. I rented a booth for the outside of the car. I had painted a few cars before so I knew what I was getting into. Next time I paint a unibody car like the old BMW 2002 I'm restoring, I'll first paint all of the outside panels first. It's easier to first paint the outside, mask all of the outer panels, then spray the jams, trunks etc. It's about impossible to keep overspray out of freshly painted inside areas and you are going to color sand and buff the outer panels anyway. DH
I saw this car at Dunkels, it was the cleanest 914 I had seen to date. I painted mine in my driveway. He is correct when he says its all in the prep work. No paint job in the world can make up for preparation. Many hours of wet sanding and smoothing and blocking it. The yellow one i painted int he driveway came out ok, not bad for my first try at it. But it needed hours of color sanding afterwards just to make it look nice. If I would have prepped it better, it would have come out much nicer. Oh, and yellow is not a color you would ever try to paint outside, it attracts every bug that flies. Hundreds of them. Color sand those out.