I now have all the body panels in primer. The rubber nose will need another coat of primer. The first round of blocking should start next week.

Your quality or work and progress rate is outrageous!!

Ryan

Wow !! What a Fantastic job on the bodywork!!

I love how nice and crisp you go the lines of the car; excellent work.

Curious as to how many hours it took to get it that straight?

Thank you for all the comments. It's really a labor of love. For me the more I do it the easier it seems. Each fender has about 8 hours of rework. The fender edge along the door needed to be reformed. I drilled out all the spot welds releaf cut the edges and pulled it out to match the door radious. Clamp and reweld. The front lip that comes to the nose was welded wrong to high and to wide. I had to drill the spot welds out and pull the fender down and in then reweld. You would think for a 400 dollar repop fender you wouldn't have to rework it but you do. I use a ruler straight edge on end to make sure all the panels line up. Lots of blocking but the end result speaks for itself.

Yes it does.

First round of blocking the car completed. Now the tedious task of masking everything off. This is the second coat of high build.

May have a color picked out for the GTO Heaven Blue

Hey Jason, I am really loving this build. How much outsourcing do you do with your projects? Do you have another shop do your paint work?

Alex

Top shelf build very nice work!!

I can never understand how any shop can start a build with out making sure the frame and body shell are not straight before any metal replacement starts.

Thanks for posting

Looking good Jason. Nice work as always. :biggthumpup:

Nope all done by me except the rebuilding of the motor and transmission. I leave that up to the machine shop and engine builder. I'm a one man show!

I spent most of the day blocking the car out with 320. All looks good, 1 more coat of high build will cover the couple spots I sanded through into the high build. Then a final wet sad with 600 grit will have all the exterior panels ready for paint. Once wet sanded everything will be disassembled for paint.

I also test fit the rear bumper and rear valance panel. surprisingly they real good.

What's the factory color for it,and are you shooting the same?

Blue exterior, white top, and blue guts. Owner wants a newer color blue with pearl. The gallon of PPG BC is 1400 dollars. I posted a card of it earlier in the post. Pretty sure he is going to go with black interior not blue. Although the motor and trans are original to the car they will not be built to factory specifications. He is modifying the motor a lot, aluminum heads intake cam etc.

I picked up my painting supplies yesterday. Just for color and clear for this car the bill came to 2180.00 that's with a discount on PPG. Now this isn't cheap color as the owner wanted a color with pearl in it. The blue he picked is called Heavenly Blue and the retail cost of the gallon was 1850.00 which to me is just crazy. He feels at this point what's another couple hundred dollars to get what he wants. Paint and clear have been averaging 1200-1500 for the last couple of cars I painted but it just seems materials for restorations are just way out of hand. This is why paint jobs are going for 10-20k depending on the level of work that is needed. Just crazy!

That is crazy.
I remember a few crying about how they had to pay 5K for their stock paint jobs @Vettefest in the early 90's.

I looked up PPG Heavenly Blue and that color is stunning. Cannot wait to see how it looks when you're done.

Here it is on a Chevelle

ahh, spoken like a true New Jerseyian :)

you do excellent work, Jason... Keep it up

HAHAHA thanks brother .. that was the PG version .. I know you knew that also

Jason, I know I've probably asked you before, but where are you located in relation to central NJ. I'm thinking it's time to get Gramma's car repainted after 25 years and your work is outstanding. :-)

I’m next in line. It’s great when everyone wants you.

I’m just outside of Albany and Jeff is next in line and after jeff I have a list that is only getting longer. I do this for fun and sometimes I ask myself what’s wrong with me! Well Mother Nature put a twist in my planned week to paint the GTO. I get this week off from work and had all intentions to paint the GTO but I can’t do it when the outside temp is single digits. I got the bottom of the hood and trunk lid painted today. It took 5 hours to get the shop to 75 just to paint these two things. This color is awesome. Crazy expensive but well worth it. This GTO is going to be the only one of its kind that’s for sure!

Gto smurf

That's definitely blue! You can add me to the list too!

Gosh dang that's a pretty blue..

Again, you do nice work.
keep it up

Body is painted onto doors fenders nose and hood.

Beautiful!


Jason

X2!!

Only the nose and bottom spoilers left to paint and with only a pint of paint to spare, it will be close!!! At 1850 a gallon retail I hope I don't need any more.

Wow Jason, that's amazing. Very nice work and thanks for sharing.

Dan

First door wet sanded and buffed out. Not to bad for a garage paint job ...just like glass!

Wow very nice work indeed.Bob

Finished up all the paint work. I just started wet sanding and buffing the body. The top of the drivers side quarter and top of the trunk lid is completed. Pictures do this car no justice that's for sure. Still waiting on the motor. The machine shop is dragging there feet. They have only had it for 4 years. It sure would be nice to set the motor before I hang the fenders for the last time. I also sent the dash pad out to just dashes in CA for a restore. Just an FYI these guys are now 14 weeks out so plan accordingly.

Inspiring for sure.

That is a huge commitment to paint a car a non stock colour. This turned out amazing!! I still cant fathom 1850 US a gallon. (I worked in automotive robotic paint for 10 years and saw millions of dollars of paint sprayed but never had to pay for it myself..... )

Ryan