Had to work wednesday, Im going to stop by the body shop tomorrow. My metal guy just sent me this picture from earlier today

The bare steel look I use on most of these parts is an epoxy based aerosol from rust oleum. It is their appliance line stainless steel. Most of the semi gloss black is either dupli color satin black enamel or SEM trim black. All of the metal parts get disassembled and bead blasted individually. I take a lot of pictures. Thanks for the compliment.

Thanks for sharing your resto with us all. I look forward to seeing it finished at a future pure stock event.

In the meantime, keep us posted

You're doing that car an injustice going to that amount of detail with the resto and not keeping the color original...

Spray it silver...

Thanks for the suggestion, I will take it into consideration.....not

C'mon Davey...

You know I got to give you poop about this...

(I'll be looking for a TX9 on the tag)...

Why would you look for TX9 on the tag? Its not a 70 R/T. Someone should have told Dave Dudek to not paint and change his 68 Coronet into black. He is also a bad bad man.

Hey who is RS23U1G? How do you know Dave and myself?

Cmon Mike you know your famous!!!

anynews on this project??

Typical body man slow progress. Dave may have some pics of some dash resto items he has had done....

Jeezuss this thread got hijacked majorly!

I think each piece is turning out amazing. I was going to ask your tip on the silver parts so glad you mentioned that.

I wonder if everyone commenting on color would rather see 1 more car rot to the ground rather than be painted a different color.

I think it should be about loving old cars and getting them back on the road.

Subscribing to topic.

Still a slow go on bodywork, but I should be wrapping up the dash resto soon. I'll get those pictures up as soon as it is done. Turning out awesome though

Two big things to update.

1) I recently saw an older aricle on MCG of a one owner A4 silver 69 Hemi bee, long story short....All of you guys begging me to keep it A4 over black can stop now.....Its going back in A4.

Most importantly though, 2) Body man has had the car for over a year now and has done maybe 12 hours of work to the car. I have had an offer to bring the car to a different shop that WILL get the car done this year. At this rate, the current guy will get the car done by the time I retire on 2040. Im gonna have a long talk with the current body man this upcoming week about what it will take for him to honor the agreement we made to get the body and paint done in 18 months. If he cant satisfy my concearns, its getting yanked and he is gonna owe me big on my down pament for the metal work. Im super frusterated with the lack of progress.

Anyways, its going back A4 regardless of who finishes the car.

It'll look cool either way. I was with you on the black. A-4 looked too green to me. The '68 buffed silver was cool, though!
Hope you get your body shop woes straightened out. Seems that even ones that do a good job on other peoples stuff can't be trusted to treat everyone the same. Pretty sad.

Good call on the silver. To be honest, either way it would be a stunner.

Bummer to hear about the body guy. I'd be prepared to write off any $ you gave him if you pull the car. I learned long ago to NEVER give a body guy $ up front if you want your car done in any reasonable amount of time, if at all. Most of them only work when they are earning the $. If they already have it there are other paying jobs that keep coming in that they put at the head of the pack.