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'64 Impala
Topic Started: Jul 19 2017, 08:00 PM (48 Views)
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This was a junk kit I was using to experiment on. My journey began with opening the doors -just to see if I had the stones. If you remember I opened up the '56 Bel Air. This was so frustrating I swore I'd never do it again. Well, I did it again. This technique was a little different, I reversed the hinges. This way the doors open like a real car. They open into the body. Well, as it happens, I was really stoked about my work, I decided to finish the kit. The gold body was painted over 20 years ago. But the right front quarter has white paint all over it. I can't remember what happened here or why. I still had the same spray bomb from back in the day so I sanded off what I could and resprayed the front. Whoops, the color didn't match at all! No biggie, after all it's just for fun and to build upon my skills. No hood cuz it warped on me. I'll have to heat it up and see what I can do with it.

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Great job! Don't worry about the paint matching. It's actually more period correct...Back then, when you picked your car up from the body shop, the paint never matched EXACTLY. I remember a customer telling me that the paint on the repaired door better match the front fender and rear quarter panel.....So I painted the whole side of the car. He was so happy, because the door "matched".
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