Last night I painted the front hood, the tonnaeu cover and both one-piece sides.

Results: from best to worst...

Tonnaeu cover: Paint is thin but no orange peel, I'll keep it.
Front hood: Orange peel, but only a few thin spots. I'll keep it as is.
Left side: a few sags and orange peel, but no thin spots. Repaint it.
Right side: OMG! Did I do this with my eyes shut? Sigs all over, thin spots where you can see the primer and orange peel llike 30 grit samd paper. Complete sand and repaint required.

I reshot the left side this morning. Much better job. But I'll have to spend a few nights working on the right side before being able to reshoot it. Here is the left side in the booth, I mean my garage this morning.

i love how you can take the side of your car off.. ROFL

Sounds good Paul.
I can't wait to see it put together.

Here is the hood after a few hours baking in the sun. Today is a perfect day for sun.

We learned a few weeks ago that a little turbulance is a good thing. So if my hood has a finish sorta like an orange, this would be OK right? Kinda like a golf ball.

Here is the best piece...

Sweet love

I'm going to let the left side sit for a few hours inside. This has some orange peel but not as bad as before.

I'm not showing you the right side.

Next Sunday I'm going to Sebring to put it on the scales.


P

Looking good Paul.

Did you make the one piece left and right sides?

I've been searching for something exactly like that for several years now to use as a life size wall hanging in the Porsche Loft in my house. That and a pair of Fuchs and tires cut down to fill in the wheel wells.

What does the single piece weigh?

QUOTE (URY914 @ Feb 5 2006, 03:44 PM)

Sweet love

Wow- it looks nice. I don't much care for the fan propeller mounted swamp-boat style on the rear lid, though. Is that SCCA legal?

Cole

Sure does look good

QUOTE (wrpspddrvr @ Feb 5 2006, 01:19 PM)

QUOTE (URY914 @ Feb 5 2006, 03:44 PM) Sweet love Wow- it looks nice. I don't much care for the fan propeller mounted swamp-boat style on the rear lid, though. Is that SCCA legal? Cole

I KNEW someone would say something about that.

QUOTE (STL914 @ Feb 5 2006, 01:04 PM)

Looking good Paul. Did you make the one piece left and right sides? I've been searching for something exactly like that for several years now to use as a life size wall hanging in the Porsche Loft in my house. That and a pair of Fuchs and tires cut down to fill in the wheel wells. What does the single piece weigh?

Yes the sides are one piece and 95% fiberglass.

One side weights 20 pounds maybe. Kinda hard to hold it on the bathroom scale.

Paul, it's easy, just climb on the scale...check your weight. Then climb on with the panel...check new weight, subtract old from new weight and there's your easy answer...take the scale outside to make it easier

QUOTE (seanery @ Feb 5 2006, 04:13 PM)

Paul, it's easy, just climb on the scale...check your weight. Then climb on with the panel...check new weight, subtract old from new weight and there's your easy answer...take the scale outside to make it easier

thats how we weigh our dogs....

QUOTE (Aaron Cox @ Feb 5 2006, 06:22 PM)

QUOTE (seanery @ Feb 5 2006, 04:13 PM) Paul, it's easy, just climb on the scale...check your weight. Then climb on with the panel...check new weight, subtract old from new weight and there's your easy answer...take the scale outside to make it easier  :D  ;) thats how we weigh our dogs....

me, too!

QUOTE (seanery @ Feb 5 2006, 04:27 PM)

QUOTE (Aaron Cox @ Feb 5 2006, 06:22 PM) QUOTE (seanery @ Feb 5 2006, 04:13 PM) Paul, it's easy, just climb on the scale...check your weight. Then climb on with the panel...check new weight, subtract old from new weight and there's your easy answer...take the scale outside to make it easier  :D  ;) thats how we weigh our dogs.... me, too!

rofl!

Good job!

Thin coats are lighter.


KT

Great job Paul, nice to see the car one color again...

-- Rob

GREAT CAR !!!! Keep us posted.

DAVE

OMG!! LOOK AT ALL THAT PAINT!!!

now it weighs too much!

=p

Sweet mother of painted FG flared race cars! That looks great!

I hung the left side on it after I gotr home from work.

Man it is RED.

It was getting dark so the pictures are doctored up a little.

Very nice Paul!

no offense intended but it sorta reminds me of a cross between the one-piece amusement park car ride...

...and the Isdera Spyder 036i!

Felix,

I don't think I've ever seen that car. Looks good.

I plan on taking some pinstriping tape and outlining the door lines so from about 10' away it won't look one piece sides.

P