Painting front grill completed

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  1. Jimmy2gates

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    Well folks ,last weel i asked members of the forum to help with ideas for striping and painting my grill thats going into my 69.5 grabber clone street/strip race car. Well i took some of your advice ,then went to my best friend and retired auto body rebuilder and professional auto painter,my DAD. Remember folks im not building a show car so its only a 8.5 out of 10 for the quaulity of the job,but its going to be one pimp street/strip race car ,so heres some before and after pics of a grill i bought of ebay for 10.00,its going to look great on the front of my 2007 dodge viper pearl blue base coat /clear coat paint job . . ps im still on track for racing it in july of 2008,ill keep you all posted cheers Outlaw Jimmy2gates more eye candy pics on thread #5
     
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    looks good?
     
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    Where's the pics?? :hmmm:
     
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    Is this gril made out of the same stuff that transperant aluminium radiator was made out of.

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    painted grill completed

    A few more grill pics of Maverick grill for my street/strip race car cheers Jimmy2gates
     
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    Nice work! (y)
     
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    Take the Maverick badge, remove the chromed logo, paint the back plate the same blue your painting the car, then put it back together. It will add a nice detail.
     
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    Also....move it up a row.
     
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    Looks great. Nice job
     
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    What you talkin about Craig. Did you ever change your marker/turn lights from left and right to make them right:idea: LOL!
     
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    Yep.....sure did as soon as I got home.
     
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    what prep did you do before prime/paint :huh:

    ...:thumbs2:...
     
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    Painting Maverick grill

    prep work ,well i plastic bead blasted it ,then sprayed a clear primmer adhesive to the plastic grill ,then hi-solids two part primer, sanded the primmer with a scotch brite pad then two coats of semi-gloss pant .I did the same to all the other metal pieces of the grill. cheers Jimmy2gates
     
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    Looks nice.....
     
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    Hey Frank, is your grill the factory Grabber grill, or did you paint an argent one?
     
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