Why put all that hard prepping graft in when u can't u get a decent finish with aerosol paint?? Cost?

 

looking good mate

 

I can get a perfectly good finish with aerosol paint, prep work is 95% of the work when doing something like this

Thanks for the comments

 

Cost from start to finish is about £60 i was a body repairer before so i know the costs of doing resprays, if i had all my equipment still and was painting it with a gun it would still only cost me about £100, when a car goes into a body shop its hours of labour that bumps up the cost.

 

agreed ive sprayed my own car and one of my mates and prep work is the key deffinatly

 

cmon guys so your telling me aerosol is better than a bodyshop spraygun? no way.

 

Obviously not, but im not paying somebody else to paint my car when i can do a perfectly good job myself with a rattle can.

 

Thats what Im saying why not buy a compressor and a spray gun??

 

Think we must have our lines crossed fella

Anyway had a very exciting day, picked up my wheels for my scoob

They are made in Japan by a company called Mahdi Caesar, after a good look around them i decided to refurb them straight away that way i can spend the rest of the time polishing the alloy.

Heres a few pics of when i got them.





And here they are now, bare in mind i still need to polish them up









Pictures really don't do them justice, they look stunning in real life

Anybody going to Rising Sun car show 7&8 May??

 

Sweet wheels - that colour is going to look great on the car. Good job matey

 

Wow, they are going to stand out!

 

Cheers guys, yes thats what im after these will look awesome on the car cant wait to get them on.

Im going to polish the hell out of the rim the centre is hit with a candy white base and rover tara green pearl on top of that, really does look trick

 

Eh? You might yea

 

wheels should look great against the black!!

lamin-x the headlights????

 

Got all of my wheels refurbed today, just got to polish them up now so going to have a good go tonight.

heres a few pictures of the whhels so far, im really impressed with them.















thanks for looking

 

nice!!

 

WOW cannot believe how good my scoob looks on these rims, got them fitted today and cant stop looking at it.











Pictures aren't that good but it looks awesome

 

Those tyres the right size? Prolly just the pics, get some tyre dressing on asap

 

^what he said...look way too low they should be 35s on 18s, love the green rims though...bin that bloody ugly scoop for a vent though; way smoother

 

looking great, loving the green wheels. it'll definitely stand out!!

^definitely ditch the scoop, looks out of place! as suggested a vent or just an original scoop would complete the car.. imo

 

Tyres are 205/40/17 they do have a little stretch which looks nice as you see the polished alloy sticking out.

couple more pictures







i will get the body finished 1 day.

 

looking really good. wasnt so keen on the wheels when i saw the first picture but they do look nice when theyre on the car.

 

Looking good mate, where did you get the front splitter from?

 

liking the look of this one will be keeping an eye really like the wheels too fella

Alex

 

Cheers guys, after alot of consideration i think im going to have to sell her, a big business opportunity has come up and without thinking ive banged all of my money into it, and running low.

Got some pictures of how she is now with the bumper painted













Thanks for looking

Here is a link to it on Pistonheads

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2800832.htm

 

That's a shame, good luck with the sale.

 

My old classic



Love the blacked out look

 

looks great mate really liking the satin black! i will hopefully be doing the same to mine soon have you got any tips for the spraying and prepping? cheers

 

i actually like it not a huge fan of matt on a scooby but it looks good on this