put the black grills in and ended making my own upper grill for it and painted it black


headlights and bumper and all on :fluffy:





11/6




puting some puddy glaze in to fill the holes and lowspots after i sanded it down

(haha, joe, when did you take this, i didn't even notice lol)

pre-masked

 

masked up


i painted the front bumper and as soon as i started painting the passenger side i ran outta paint :rant:

first few base coats



unmasked after clear, still needs to be buffed and all but it looks 100x's better than before


hood masked


bumper cleared


hood cleared


car back in the other garage

 

11/7/08

bumper back together


on








and my fav pic


but since the front metallic was flopped with the back, time to shoot it again...

 

11/23/08
well the paint didn't match the factory paint at all. seemed like the metalic in the paint was backwards cause when the front was light, the back was dark and when the back was light, the front was dark....

so tuesday night, i pulled it back in the garage to paint the whole car up. i got single stage so it would be cheaper but you have to do a bunch of coats for the clear to come through, and i was running out so i stopped. i'm gonna clear it next week but now its kinda like a matte silver and it looks pretty cool lol. but def gonna clear it once i get some money. my dad said he could spot me so i can get it done but i already un-masked it so i might just wait.

proof that the color does match, but this time the back is darker instead of the front like in the pics i posted from capital


pulled tails out and started masking everything up







some coats laid




i also smoked my 3rd brake light and painted somthing else....

 

before


primered


shot inside first


looks pretty cool with a smoked from behind look


i'll take some better pics today

 

11/24/08
Before i put the black rear Lexus emblem on

 

nice work yo. is the paint flat or did you clear it.
your project is coming along great.

 

Wow, I'm impressed. Looks great! Congrats on all the hard work you put into your rebuild.

 

Nice work. Looks like you took every safeguard necesary to get it close to perfect. So, what you are telling us is you are volunteering to be the new MD local body man. LOL!

 

Nice work. Time to lower that thing now.

 

Wow, very impressive Alot of blood, sweat and tears went into that project I'm sure! It's got the be a great feeling to rebuild it yourself! Congrats!

 

wow..amazing..nice work

 

Really impressive and great work on the rebuild.. enjoyed the pics!

 

wow amazing work! awesome skill to have!!!

 

WOW Very nice work bro. If you ever want to practice painting on another Lexus. I can buy the paint, beer, ect...


-Smitty