Snake Skin Green Challenger Restoration

[YellowThumper]

Don't forget listing the ounces or liters per required.

BTW it looks awsome from your pics. Still years down road but following build such as yours has me believing I also can do it...

[magoo426]

Here are 2 photos of the spray equipment that I used to paint my car.

It's called    CAPspray  CS9100

It comes with everything that is needed (Gun, hose, etc).  It runs on normal 110/120V. 

Cudakiller70, I painted mine after I had 3 Miller Lites in about 45 minutes.  After the initial pre-spray jitters were gone, I then drank another beer through the whole paint process just to catch my breath hahahaha.  After it's all painted, then I celebrate with another beer

[larry4406]

Here are 2 photos of the spray equipment that I used to paint my car.

It's called    CAPspray  CS9100

It comes with everything that is needed (Gun, hose, etc).  It runs on normal 110/120V. 

Cudakiller70, I painted mine after I had 3 Miller Lites in about 45 minutes.  After the initial pre-spray jitters were gone, I then drank another beer through the whole paint process just to catch my breath hahahaha.  After it's all painted, then I celebrate with another beer

Nice job!

Any reason you choose a turbine type spray system vs a spray gun that runs off a compressor?  I'm years from painting my car but will need to make this decision one day.  I have a large 22cfm 7.5hp compressor.

[71gogreen]

Thank you for the reply. I bought my sprayer from TP tools in Canfield Ohio . They have a great restoration store to by finishing products! my srayer is called "Show time Hvlp 90" I bought mine 3 years ago and never opened the box! 

[70chall440]

Pretty cool set up, not real cheap I see but everything costs.

[magoo426]

Had a few photos of my car outside.  The pics were taken about a week after painting was completed.  However the car was not wet sanded and buffed in the photos.  I'm currently still wet sanding and buffing it right now.  I would say I'm about 50% done.

[70chall440]

Very nice!

[Cudakiller70]

Seeing the light at the end of the tunnel? Looking good.

[magoo426]

Finally got the stripes and hood decal on.  Took it for a drive this weekend, still got bugs to work out.  Next Monday I'm taking it to the tire/rim shop to put on some rims to see what I like.  Looking at 17" rims.  I did have my rear driver side wheel rub the qtr panel.  There is about 1/2" gap between the rim and qtr panel.  The other side has a little more gap, maybe 5/8" or a little more.  Wish both sides were the same, not sure why they're not. 

Next time I have it outside I'll try to get some photos then. The paint looks good in the light with the pearl coming out.

[DAYLEY/CHALLENGER]

Looks good from my house.  Keep posting.

[Grec]

"There is about 1/2" gap between the rim and qtr panel.  The other side has a little more gap, maybe 5/8" or a little more.  Wish both sides were the same, not sure why they're not."

I discovered the same thing when I was measuring mine for wheels way back when. I think it's pretty common for there to be variance here. Gotta love hand-made stuff. :-)

Beautiful car, by the way. 

[roy282]

snake skin green is looking AWESOME!!! 

[magoo426]

I was able to finally take a few photos while taking it out for a drive this past weekend.  I like having the TKO-600, the overdrive is awesome.  I'm running 3.73 gears and at 65MPH I'm turning around 2300 RPM. 

I'm still looking for wheels.  Seems everything I like is custom shop wheel.  So I think I'm going to keep looking over this coming winter and hope to find some more options.

[DAYLEY/CHALLENGER]

I think she looks good now.  Paint is really eye catching .   

[gyman98]

I really like the color!  Awesome job