New spoiler

This is the green car which will be going to the painter's in a few weeks.
I bought it from Craigslist in May. It was cheap and relatively unblemished, but was lacking in the paint department.

Ideally, I would like it to look the stock color, which is a dark green metallic, like this Camaro I saw at a show in San Diego last year.

 

A friend from the car club, Lon, was able to find a complete GTA style spoiler at a junkyard this weekend.
I don't know how he did it! These 25 year old parts are nearly impossible to find.

(They make an aftermarket spoiler at Classic Industries, but it's expensive and I heard it has fit issues.)

 

Don put it on the car on Monday so it wouldn't be cluttering up his shop.

We will have to take it off again when I take the car to get painted.
This is the 2nd car I've had entirely painted.

There will be some other dismantling to do.
It's better to take these pieces off so that the paint place paints both sides, otherwise they will just do the top side. Or, charge extra for taking the pieces apart.

Bumper ding repair

This new blog is about the never ending repairs to my 2 Firebirds.

I was thinking about doing an educational blog about the restoration of the green car from the bottom up.

However it already has a lot done to it. For instance, we put the motor in it over the summer...

Today, I needed a place to quickly upload pictures to show my friends of the repairs.

I got rear ended before Christmas.

Here is the before picture.

Here are two after pictures.

The actual color of the car has not changed.
The camera angle makes the after picture look darker.

It still is the same color as the top most picture.

I'm going to have the same person repaint the entire green car in a few weeks.
2nd time I've had to have a whole car repainted.
I will be sure to share the experience of taking the car apart, etc.