Let There Be Paint! Despite the Cottonwood Trees

Despite a strong showing from Greg's Cottonwood trees trying to cover everything with their cottony seeds, we were able to get the body, wheels an hood painted. Man this can looks better in white than in dark green. The lower stance and modified front bumper add a very aggressive look tothe car as well. Me Likey!

Here is the progression of painting. In the morning the car was green. A couple hours of scouring, then cleaning, and then the multiple shades of primer before the finale, where Greg painted the entire car. It took about a quart and a half todo one heavy coat.










Neither Greg or I have painted using spray guns before and Jeff borrowed a self-contined unit from work to do the painting. Here is Greg prepping the gun and the paint:


Danielle helped paint the flat black hood which ended up being more challenging than I would have expected.


Greg Painting the wheels:


It's WHITE:




This pic is a littl hard to see and the car is up in the air, but here is our 'cop car' style wheel:


When we swapped the newly painted wheels on, Danille wanted to do it so she could use her favorite tool, Thor's Cousin Louie, the massive impact:



It was a long weekend, and there is still more work to do this week, but I'm really happy with what we've gotten done and am really excited about this weekend. In almost exactly five days (120 hours) we will be starting our first ever wheel to wheel racing in the Simpsons themed Team Bear Patrol Lexus SC400. I'm giddy, yes GIDDY, with excitement!