Well...its finally time...I stripped my car down for the final time today and took her into the shop...they're supposed to be taking out what little hail damage I had left today...then they're going to paint it and hopefully have it done by the end of next week if all goes well. I've decided on a "Porsche Speed Yellow" from the side trim up...and the savannah brown that it was already painted from the trim down...saves a little time and money since the insides don't have to be changed...doors especially



All i've got for now is the pictures of how sad my car looked before I took her to the shop...a combination of the old brown and new blue panels...and primer...no headlights or tail-lights...one wiper arm...no trim...just...wrong :P



also switched back to the pop-ups...I was having trouble with the fixed bulbs...you just can't get the same ammount of light out of one of those tingy things as you can out of a 7" bulb...so I"ve got it set-up to mount to the bottom of the bumper...its in the first pic..looks pretty good



anyway...more pics when I get her back from the shop

pics of the rear and front...like I said...pretty sad

I wanna see pics when you're done man. Hope the paint comes out nice for ya!

yellow and brown? thats retro https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...#>/biggrin.png

shes baaaaaack https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...#>/biggrin.png

I have a few complaints about the paint job...mainly that it too way too long...and they didn't do a few things that I had asked them to do...repeatedly...but...I'm sorting it all out today



heres pictures https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...DIR#>/cool.png



local shop painted the whole car...I painted the wiper arms, side mirrors, trim, and various interior trim panels...i'll get pics of the insides later...once its done

second set of pictures

Third set of pictures

May be a week or 2 before I'm done with the interior and get pics up...just takin my sweet time...also had to swap my 5th starter out yesterday...good thing these things are lifetime https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...#>/biggrin.png

Nice 'n shiney!

from what i can see, the paint looks good, but no offense meant dood but those pictures suck!!!



take your car out so that it has the same lighting all around (Pull it into the driveway even). NO shadows on the car please!!! Show the sides and stuff too!!!



We need more pictures.

the car looks awsome exept those 4 foglights in the front... im really not liking em (modern lookin lights on a 70's 80's car) but ive never been one to like 1st gens and im really like'n the way urs is lookin

looks great man! I'm with Iotus though....I wanna see some full side shots in good lighting!

Need a nice Front shot and side shot.Are you planning to put your other lights in or keeping the stocker headlights?

Hey man, I don't mean to nag, but do you have those pics for us yet? We are all very impatient!!!

My camera is having some issues...so the pictures aren't as clear as they should be...but they are in full light...the first page is of external...and the second is of various internal things...such as the carpeting i've layed in the rear behind the seats



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It's rather hard for me to get good pictures here...weather has been crazy recently...plus we've got so many vehicles parked around in the yard :P



the "conversion lights" i put together were just not bright enough...I really don't think any lights that are 3" or smaller will put out the same ammount of light as the factory bulbs...I'm just going to look into getting some of those xenon conversions or soemething to fit into the popups



as for the lights that were in them...those are the ones on the lower part of my bumper now.

Better, much better.



That thing is starting to look REAL sweet man!! You should get a front air dam from www.mazdatrix.com !! IT would look REAL hot with your paint scheme. The full body kit would look even better.

that's just plain beautiful..... beautiful........ https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/bigok.gif

Nice!