Well, this the weekend I've been waiting for for over 6 months, putting paint back on the car. I put plastic sheet on the exposed walls of the carport to creat a paint booth. I then taped up the car's exterior panels, except the front trunk and front fenders.

Just to get everyone up to speed, I have stripped the paint from the engine compartment, after replacing the right suspension ear and the engine shelf on that side. I also removed the back pad and glue. I then removed the tar from the passenger compartment floor, the glue behind the back pad, then the seam-sealer and all of the paint. Finally, I removed the seam-sealer and all of the paint from the rear trunk.

Here's a shot of the outside, before painting.

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Here's the rear trunk and engine compartment before painting.

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Here's the passenger compartment. I bought some wiring looms to wrap around the wires to keep them from being painted and to help hold them out of the way.

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Here's a shot after the etch primer, then the next 2 coats of primer had been applied.

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Here's a shot of the passenger compartment.

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Here's the 'money' shot, we have RED paint. I applied 2 coats of color paint. I took me 2 days from start to finish.

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Here's a shot of the passenger compartment.

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Rob,

You are the MAN!

You're doing mine when I get done.

Paul

QUOTE (URY914 @ Jan 9 2005, 06:47 PM)

Rob, You are the MAN!   You're doing mine when I get done. Paul

Yea, but are you going to have anything left to paint?????????

I want to come by next weekend to get a pic and some measurements for your roll-around engine stand, my brother-in-law is going to build one for me. I need it before I pick up the engine from Joe at the end of the month....

I also want to see the last of the 914...

Less is FASTER.... and so is RED.......

PM'd ya Rob

looks great Rob!

Very Nice job

That is way too cool!!! You are gonna have one really nice car.

very nice!
have yourself a for a job well done

QUOTE (Jeroen @ Jan 9 2005, 08:09 PM)

very nice! have yourself a  :beer1:  for a job well done

Jeroen, I'm enjoying a martuni now...

I refuse to come down with DWD, I'm going to complete this project and get it back on the road by my birthday in June...

And he's got a SWEEEEET engine ready to go in.
POR-15 Black engine enamel will look great against the red.

Nice....ya wanna swing by & do mine?

Makes us all feel good to see the various 914s on the board coming back to life! Keep 'em rollin'!

good job! i wish i had enough patience to strip all mine down to bare metal, but im more of a smooth it out and fix the rust kinda guy.

QUOTE (Jeroen @ Jan 9 2005, 05:09 PM)

very nice! have yourself a for a job well done

What color red is that? what brand of paint? just wondern`. Barry



"Red looks fast just sitting there"

Nice goin Rob! Lookin good.

QUOTE (72914S @ Jan 10 2005, 08:07 AM)

What color red is that? what brand of paint? just wondern`. Barry            "Red looks fast just sitting there"

First off, thanks to everyone for their positive comments.

Unless you have done any repair/prep/painting of the interior sections, you can't imagine the amount of time involved. All of this was done using a suction, quart-size spray gun, WITHOUT a rotissorie.

Barry, this is the original Bahia Red, L30E. I used the Omni paint products...

Rob, where did you get the paint?

Painted inurds

GOOD JOB Rob,

dang that is a ton of work..

great results thou

Here's the most significant before and after shot. I completely replaced the pass side suspension ear and the battery tray.

Here's the before shot

Here's the after shot.

Man I do good work...