stevesfbody

Back in March I bought my first car, a 1994 Camaro Z28. The car had just under 123,000 miles and a "rebuilt engine" and bolt-ons. The car was in desperate need of paint and I had always wanted to "restore" a car. (I wouldn't call it a restoration but you get the point.) When I first bought it two rims were black and two were silver but the previous owner had another set of rims and tires that he gave to me in the sale but here's what it looked like the morning after I bought it.





As you can see, its seen better days. So I decided to clean it up and saw the true extent of the blemishes. And on top of it, my kind neighbors decide to key the ever living **** out of it.
Heres a pic with the tires and rims mounted



To give it a better look I bought some stainless steel inserts and Z28 emblems





A month went bye so I cleaned it up again and shot some pictures in my backyard.


Yes, one silver rim...







Shortly after this my SS spoiler came in the mail and I test fitted it and was pleased with the look



And now finally I got to do some bodywork






masked up











sanded








Soon to come is a shaved berger panel, new exhaust, new rims/tires and probably a different hood. Oh and if anyone is trying to get rid of some rims PM me

More to come in the next few days/weeks

whytryz28

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Respraying same red or different shade?

I like the "ugly" hood also

Mattyfresh89

hey steve

Are you planning on rattle can painting it or actual automotive paint through a spray gun? Btw if you plan on keeping the stock 16" wheels and want to check out something new look into Plasti-dip. Best part about it is that if you dont like the color you choose you can peel it off like skin with no damage to the original rim / surface.


Thing is coming along, maybe I'll see you at a meet sometime in MA

WS6 What

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Looking better already. Always liked those years of the Z28, glad they arent all just dying away and someone's fixing them up.

my bandit

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you have some shitty neighbors if they keyed your "new" car

HotWhipT/A

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That's what I was thinking. I'd skull fu(k someone for that.

91rs355

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^^^^^^Agreed

My6speedZ

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Making progress, body work can be very rewarding when your not doing it for a living.

Good job

stevesfbody

I'm torn on original color or a different shade. I don't know of that many shades of red that aren't dark

I will be using Dupont paint through a HVLP spray gun but I will probably respray my jams with a rattle can. And yeah probably around July I'll have it on the road so I will most likely see ya around

Thanks

Once I'm out of school I will be doing it for a living but I figured this is a good way to practice my skills and get a sick looking car out of it too. Thanks

14k

Coming along nicely. Post more pics of the progress.

My6speedZ

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Hell yea man, Body work is all about experience. The great thing about doing it on your car is that you can re do it and re do it until its perfect! You can take the time to wet sand more using different grits than if you were in the shop working on someone else car where you step down quicker and really make that biaotch SMOOTH.

I would check out a shop that mixes paint and you can have them make you a shade that you like.

Rosso Corsa might be a good alternative. There is a place near me that can even make you whatever color you want in an aerosol can. But if you already have HVLP available to you it wouldn't be hard to spray the jams too.

The berger looks great too.

Are you going to paint the headlight surround red as well? I think that looks great on the LT cars. But sometimes the black looks good and since you have the berger mod you might leave it black.

stevesfbody

I'm really trying to explore my options as far as red tints go and my car came with the berger it just needed inserts to make it looks good. I have another spare berger panel which I'm going to fill the letters with plastic and paint it to match the car in case i get bored of the flat black one I have now.

And I'm deffinatly painting the headlight buckets black for two reasons:
1.) in person it really doesn't look all that great to me
2.) also I'm trying to make it seem subtle, but noticeable to the trained eye.

I've been going to school for auto body for almost 3 years now and very rarely do I get excited about working on a car but this is deffinitaly exciting.

Tuesday and Wednesday I'll start working on my doors and get everything else set up for paint

98camarols1

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looking good so far!!

stevesfbody

thanks man, can't wait to see how yours comes out

98camarols1

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still got alot of work to do on it..are you plan on changing the color?

stevesfbody

going with a different shade of red

My6speedZ

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What are you thinking about doing to the wheels?

stevesfbody

I wanna get either SS 10 spokes, ZR1 rims, or C5 DD

Mattyfresh89

ZR1 for the win! They make replicas that arent too expensive, if you cant find factory ZR's in good shape. I'm looking into a set of hurst rims myself for the future, but not sure where to find them... I saw them in a Keystone performance cataloge next to a set of ZR1 replicas

stevesfbody

yeah I can never decide between them, I think I might get the C5 DD tho