Painted last week, looking awesome. Will wait two weeks and then color sand the clear coat, color match is perfect.
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Painted last week, looking awesome. Will wait two weeks and then color sand the clear coat, color match is perfect.
Oh wow! I remember the excitement when mine came out of the body shop.
A lot of hard work to do.
Gary
A lot of hard work to do.
Gary
Looking good Chris!
Looks great, which supplier of window seals are you going to use?
I ordered from BMW per Don’s recommendation, front windshield from Walloth.
Sweet paint job!
Nice!
Congtratulations Chris!!! It looks beautiful! Now to practice the challenging art of being patient. Resist the belt-line trim calling your name!
HonaloochieBoogie
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LOTA? Some event? I’m old, please don’t judge.Looks great Chris. I think you should have in done in plenty of time for LOTA.
What color is that? (just kidding).
Looks fantastic!
Chris, It looks great. I thought I saw in a different thread a reference to going with single stage but I may be crossing threads/topics at this point. Based on the comment regarding sanding out the clear I trust you went with a 2 stage. Was that the plan all along?
Yep, another painter thought single stage but this painter knows his stuff and my prior paint was two stage also.
LOTA/Legends of the Autobahn is the BMW CCA event in Monterey during car week in August and they added an East Coast version in Nov at Hilton Head Concours.
LOTA/Legends of the Autobahn is the BMW CCA event in Monterey during car week in August and they added an East Coast version in Nov at Hilton Head Concours.
TodB
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Wow, that looks awesome!
lytebrite
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Hi Chris- I'm a noob with 18mos of ownership on my 73 3.0CSa Fjord. Can you share the paint shop name and locale. Or if other members can recommend a West Coast (SoCal or Nevada if single stage) paint shop? Much appreciated.
Let me find out, it was handled thru a friend. Fjord is two stage, shop is near Mission Viejo.
Looks great Chris. But then it always looked great. Hoping to make it back to LOTA this year or next.
I will be there in Nov by flying there. We are staying in a very nice home with Wayne, Chris, Stan, Chris, Steve, Peter et al. I will be working at LOTA helping Cain.
I bought a front and rear window seal from W&N. Neither fit for the restoration shop,but they had never installed a CS windshield or rear window seal before. I know they broke the rear one and replaced it with a BMW OEM gasket. They used my original front seal which was probably a BMW OEM seal from 2005. They never told me why the W&N front seal didn't work. And then they lost it...
Beautiful color...