O.k. I don't know what took longer....painting my car, puting it back together, or updating my webpages so I could show you my first paint job :D I'll have to get better pics when it quits raining around here (it does that on occasion) :D

web page (http://home.earthlink.net/~mrdanb)

Dano

Hey Popeye!, er I mean Dan, Your car came out great! graemlins/beers.gif just in time for summer... graemlins/thumbsup.gif I bet you can't wait for that liquid sunshine to stop... ;) BTW did you use the new rocker moldings? If so, how did the repros fit? (If you used repros) Mike :D

hello Dan ,WOW!! youll have join us for a cruise sometime cant wait looks great hey maybe see you out at the race track ( wanna Race ) now you need some 3 inch exauhst and flowmasters that way we can set everyones alarms off like we did in seaside,ore take care--patti graemlins/waving.gif

:cool: Nice Dan! All that hard work definitely paid off.
Everyone's getting ahead of me! I need to take a leave-of-absence from work and get crackin'!

Mike, I DID use the aftermarket set, and they fit like a glove graemlins/thumbsup.gif

Patti, Nice to hear from you!! I DO have a shiny new Flowmaster exhaust w/2chamber mufflers ;) Ithink the club is heading down to Ocean Shores on June 5th for "Camaros in the sand", but I'll be up in LaConner at a show at that time...I crashed my computer a while back, please shoot me your email so we can stay in touch!!

Joe, It WAS a fat bunch of work to get it in paint. The car was mostly straight when I got it, but had many little dings and a few creases down by the rockers. And now for my next trick...I will attempt to build a 375+hp 383 :D
Thanks for the props guys (and Patti ;) ) I will take her out and get some pics with a better backdrop instead of my primer colored garage.lol


Dano graemlins/beers.gif

Looks great Dan!! Patti's e-mail is available if you click on the http://www.camaros.net/forum/email.gif icon on the same line as her screen name and to the right...

Now are you planning to take pic's of Patti or your Camaro with a better backdrop? ;)

Originally posted by MrDanB:
...(and Patti ;) ) I will take her out and get some pics with a better backdrop instead of my primer colored garage.lol

The older I get, the betterer I is.lol I already have pics of Patti and her husband (super good people to have as friends BTW), The Camaro is what I was referring to Dennis ;) I really love it when I go out for a cruise now and people ask me "who did the paint... ...it looks great" I get to say Maaco (then I tell them it was me) I give many thanks to this site for all of the tips and tricks I have learned over the past 3 years!! I have made friendships, tackled things I never thought possible, and besides all that, it gives us an escape from the rat-race. I almost liked the car better BEFORE the paint job. At least I could take Lily out for a bite to eat and not have to stare at the car the whole time to make sure nobody opens their door into mine.lol

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WOW!!! If that's your first paint job, its pretty impressive. Great job. Maybe with the money you saved doing it yourself you can take a rain-free vacation to Vegas. The sun is always out here (and the MOON too). :D

Great job Dan, is that red overspray all over your wife I saw too ? :D Here are those other pics you sent. Great camera too, very clear shot of all the neat stuff on your garage wall I can check out late some night graemlins/clonk.gif

http://www.brainerd.net/~knudsen/69RS/NeatStuff/New%20paint.JPG
http://www.brainerd.net/~knudsen/69RS/NeatStuff/new%20paint%20II.JPG
http://www.brainerd.net/~knudsen/69RS/NeatStuff/New%20Paint%20III.JPG

Nice try Jim...The car was painted in my buddies garage and shop, the bodywork was done in my garage, and as stated above I'm real poor right now :D Thanks for the pics posting friend...

lookin good dan graemlins/thumbsup.gif . my cousin ken (the guy you ran into at schmucks, that was funny by the way), said it looks real nice, i cant wait to see it in person, way to go.
so a 383 huh? more horsepower, now your talkin my language. the more power bug has left my poor camaro with 20/20 paint, but from behind, at the track, mine still looks pretty good :D . your job does give me some motivation to get going on my paint however.
nice job, i'll see you around!

Sean,
Shoot me an email and we can meet up in Everett sometime...Oh yeagh BTW Ken's 4th gen get's a little too sideways for this little town ;)

Dano

will do dan. i'm looking forward to seeing the ride in person.
yes, without being there i can imagine kens car was a bit sideways, he does that sometimes ;) . actually, he's the reason i built the current 406 i have, he had fast e.t., and i couldn't accept that. hes the same way, i know i need to put together another motor, since he knows how fast my car is now, his will have to be faster. if his Z was on the road i'd probably already have my procharged 434 i've got in the back of my mind :D
look forward to seeing you again.