Look what just rolled out of the paint shop...

Two quarter panels, couple quarts of bondo, multiple trips to HF, Autozone and Wallyworld, lots of curse words and some Coors Light, and I finally have a white wagon again.



Last week:


Today:

Looks nice. I doubt I'll ever get the courage up to paint a whole car.

...but please oh please paint the spare tire hump black.

Never seen a white air dam before - hope you don't hit curbs much.

Thanks, but, I didn't paint it myself . Local Maaco did. And after all the horror stories I had heard, I was skeptical. But they did a great job. Not sure what they were thinking with the white air dam. I plan on painting it back. Ditto for the spare hump, but that'll get a coat of SEM Rust Shield.

NICE!!!! Way to go!!

Wait, the tire hump is supposed to be black?

Mine was silver like the bottom of my car originally.

Hmmm...

Stingroo wrote:

Wait, the tire hump is supposed to be black?

Mine was silver like the bottom of my car originally.

Hmmm...

Ray, I *think* on the solid color cars, ie not two tone like yours the hump was black, but on the two tone cars it was the lower color. I've seen a couple wagons like that.

Ah.

Doesn't matter, it's black now? :p

Looks good Justin now get those rims all cleaned up and put the rings back on.What did Maaco
charge for just shooting the car?

Looks good Justin, it has come a long way.

When we have meets, we'll have to have special sections for Marshmallows.

Tom

amazing looking.

Yea I want to know how much too. its sad because I paint cars for a living, but to lazy lol.

Thanks guys. Not much left and it'll be "done" Just have to do a rear end swap, and mount the blazer overhead and I've done all I wanted to do. Now i'll just have to enjoy it.

Flasheroo wrote:

Looks good Justin now get those rims all cleaned up and put the rings back on.What did Maaco
charge for just shooting the car?

CarloNYC wrote:

amazing looking.

Yea I want to know how much too. its sad because I paint cars for a living, but to lazy lol.

$657 out the door. I opted for a single stage paint. They were running a special this month so I got a couple hours of body work and a "uv protector" too.

These are becoming my winter rims, not even going to repaint them. Just put some hubcaps on em. I'm going to go with something else for summer.

silverfox103 wrote:

When we have meets, we'll have to have special sections for Marshmallows.

Thanks Tom. It really has. Even from just last week!

Boom!!! Looks awesome!

De wood done right

For that price there's no room for complaining. Keep it waxed!

Awright, man! looks good! Now clean those wheels! I don't care if they're for winter! Clean em!

Oh, and lower it.

White on,..

Looking good, congrats!

Thanks again guys. It's like i've fallen in love with this car all over again. Can't wait to be able to wash and wax it.

Couple more pictures

My favorite hubcaps. Make sure those things are secured well - I lost count of how many we lost on my dad's '86.

sherlock9c1 wrote:

My favorite hubcaps. Make sure those things are secured well - I lost count of how many we lost on my dad's '86.

Two stainless zipties attached to each hubcap/wheel.

(I also have an entire set as backup )

Cadet57 wrote:

Two stainless zipties attached to each hubcap/wheel.

(I also have an entire set as backup )

That wagon really came around with some new paint. It looks great!

I'm tempted to do that zip-tie trick on my own car...does it affect the tire/wheel balancing perceptibly?

I am really liking the white air dam.

It's really looking sweet! Nice work!

True, leave the white air dam.

lookin sweet. just get a set of Impala door spears on there in white and call it done.

that looks NIIIIICE!! And thanks for sharing what it cost. I was going to PM you about that too... yeah for that price you can't really complain. Did that include the door jambs etc too or just the outside of the car?