trapin
07-19-2005, 06:01 AM
This is something I don't do a lot on here, mainly I don't think my car is all that much to talk about compared to all the heavy hitters in the community, but I'm sitting here bored at work and thought I'd share a little 'Project Update' with y'all.
As some of you may know, I had planned to wheel my car into the paint booth last sunday (July 16th) and get her painted. What can I say....this body work stuff is proving to be more work then I had originally thought. Over shutdown I was in the garage scuffing the e-coat on my decklid with some 220 when I noticed some creases on the surface. Upon closer inspection they looked to be uniform and symetrical across the centerline. This must have occured during the e-coating process. Either they grabbed it too hard with a machine or some idiot hurled it onto the gurney when transporting it. I thought all I was going to have to do was prime and block my decklid and instead I worked for 3 days on it just to fix all the damage. And I haven't even gotten to the blocking part yet. That's just one in a long list of unforeseen problems I've had to deal with. Now my Wife decides she wants a ceramic tile backsplash on our new kitchen we installed back in March. Wonderful news, just what I want to hear. I should be getting the tile this week from the distributer and be installing it this weekend. When your involved in the Hot Rodding hobby and your Wife is not necessarily involved in it with you.....you gotta keep her happy (this is for all you single guys or recently engaged ones). I envy you guys with the girlfriends or Wives that are into cars. Me? I married a domestic Princess. I couldn't help myself....she was hot and had big boobs. :naughty:
Anyway, with any luck I'll be back to sanding and priming next week. It's looking like sometime in August now when I'll get the car to the booth. Believe it or not I have still not decided on a color yet, but it is nailed down to just two. The first choice is Black. I love black Camaros. If I do black I'm going to sell my wheels and tires and go with billet ralley's and a 4 speed. It will look like the sketch on my website. The 2nd choice is Metallic Blue Pearl (PT Crusier). With that choice I'll keep the wheels and tires that I have and go with an automatic. So basically I'm torn between a basic 'sleeper' type scheme and a more 'showy' type car.
That's it for the update, thanks for letting my waste your time.
We now return you to your regulary scheduled programming...already in progress.
As some of you may know, I had planned to wheel my car into the paint booth last sunday (July 16th) and get her painted. What can I say....this body work stuff is proving to be more work then I had originally thought. Over shutdown I was in the garage scuffing the e-coat on my decklid with some 220 when I noticed some creases on the surface. Upon closer inspection they looked to be uniform and symetrical across the centerline. This must have occured during the e-coating process. Either they grabbed it too hard with a machine or some idiot hurled it onto the gurney when transporting it. I thought all I was going to have to do was prime and block my decklid and instead I worked for 3 days on it just to fix all the damage. And I haven't even gotten to the blocking part yet. That's just one in a long list of unforeseen problems I've had to deal with. Now my Wife decides she wants a ceramic tile backsplash on our new kitchen we installed back in March. Wonderful news, just what I want to hear. I should be getting the tile this week from the distributer and be installing it this weekend. When your involved in the Hot Rodding hobby and your Wife is not necessarily involved in it with you.....you gotta keep her happy (this is for all you single guys or recently engaged ones). I envy you guys with the girlfriends or Wives that are into cars. Me? I married a domestic Princess. I couldn't help myself....she was hot and had big boobs. :naughty:
Anyway, with any luck I'll be back to sanding and priming next week. It's looking like sometime in August now when I'll get the car to the booth. Believe it or not I have still not decided on a color yet, but it is nailed down to just two. The first choice is Black. I love black Camaros. If I do black I'm going to sell my wheels and tires and go with billet ralley's and a 4 speed. It will look like the sketch on my website. The 2nd choice is Metallic Blue Pearl (PT Crusier). With that choice I'll keep the wheels and tires that I have and go with an automatic. So basically I'm torn between a basic 'sleeper' type scheme and a more 'showy' type car.
That's it for the update, thanks for letting my waste your time.
We now return you to your regulary scheduled programming...already in progress.