Painting the Colt's Bumper Before/After pics

[imported_seres]

Warren (son) and I did some touch up work on his car yesterday ~ the front bumper coating had faded away until all there was was yellow primer. We had to sand a bit with 220, then 1000 grit to remove what I described as "furry feeling junk"



This picture is the before -- even before washing!! YUK!!!!!!

 

[imported_seres]

And here's the after -- we had washed -- painted the bumper with Dupli-Color Bumper Coating that we got at Walmart.



Wow! Much better!!



Still alot to do -- sand and paint wheels, need to work on the paint with Perfect-It II - there are no swirl marks, but the paint is not so great, then we plan to use Mequire's Show Car Glaze and top with Carnauba.

 

[imported_seres]

BTW -- The VW in the background of the first pictures is one of our projects with a LLLLoooonnnnggg way to go; and the 740 Volvo in the 2nd pic is the one that was wrecked and is on it's way to Volvo heaven.



So many projects.....so little time!!

 

[imported_BretFraz]

V4M,



Terrific job! Isn't it amazing what some good prep and a little paint will do?







P.S. - How about all this rain we're getting over the past few days? Not a drop for weeks then one storm system after another.

 

[imported_seres]

Thanks, bret! I love taking this "beater" and making it into something a 16 yr. old will be happy to drive!!

V4M,

How about all this rain we're getting over the past few days? Not a drop for weeks then one storm system after another.

Tell me about it!! And it seems to decide to storm about 15 minutes into me starting to work on Warren's car -- which isn't under cover!! Oh well, maybe we won't get water restriction this year! :nixweiss