85 Monte Paint Thread

[85montemj]

So after a year of battling with this nightmare of a car, I'm in the final stages of completion, paint. With my dad's awkward work schedule and my inexperience, we're doing it panel by panel. So far I have the roof, jambs, a entire rear clip primed. Here's what i have so far....

Doin' some welding in the trunk..

Bodywork..

In Primer..

Here's an ad from one of the paper's I used for masking. See anything odd about it??

 

[neverendingmonte]

Looks good so far. I'm in the middle of body work almost ready for primer on my 88. sticking with the same color?

 

[86Limited]

Looking good, I see a show car In progress.

 

[85montemj]

Looking good, I see a show car In progress.

BULL!! haha. I have family in Jupiter, FL. And neverendingmonte, i guess I failed to mention I'm not sticking with the original color. I'm going with GM Victory Red. I want a GBody without the same contemporary colors they put on ALL of these things.

 

[neverendingmonte]

Sounds awesome. I'm going dark grey, (same color as the new camaro and corvette). Keep posting up progress pics.

 

[Tuggy24g]

Your doing a good job. Cool to see your doing the work yourself and learning with your dad.

 

[monte olrac]

you should keep it primer grey, and put some primer red racing stripes on it...paint repair would be easy a cheaper that way too! But you car is looking real good, I wish my monte was as clean

 

[neverendingmonte]

any new progress? I ran into a few kinks with my body work, but am setting up for primer now.

 

[85montemj]

Your doing a good job. Cool to see your doing the work yourself and learning with your dad.

Yeah it's nice. He's enjoying it too. Up til now he's been my "supervisor" on all the mechanical work. I'd do it and he'd check it so it's nice to have him envolved. Thanks for the compliments!

 

[85montemj]

So after some insane amounts of brazing, welding, and fiberglass bondo, the doors are complete!! Also the hood and deckild are painted. Sorry about the pictures....

Driver's Door

Hood and Decklid