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MY JAMS ARE PAINTED!

34isgreat

34isgreat

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Well my jams are done and I think they look great. Trunk could look better, it was hard to paint in the trunk with a full size paint gun, needed a small detail paint gun. Still I am happy with the result and I LOVE the color (code V Burnt Amber). Learned alot today about painting a car. A friend who teaches paint and body work helped me today. Heres a few pics.
 
Paint gun was a DeVilbiss, brand new and worked great. The fellow who helped me teaches paint and body work at our local community collage, he said it was a great gun, belongs to another friend of mine who also allowed me to paint the jams in his barn. So far I have $900.00 in my paint job, all materials. Air compressor was a Craftsman, not sure what size but we had to stop 2 or 3 times to allow it to pump up. I will paint the outside of the car at my instructors shop with a down draft paint booth. I am very happy with my result.
 
"34isgreat" said:
Paint gun was a DeVilbiss, brand new and worked great. The fellow who helped me teaches paint and body work at our local community collage, he said it was a great gun, belongs to another friend of mine who also allowed me to paint the jams in his barn. So far I have $900.00 in my paint job, all materials. Air compressor was a Craftsman, not sure what size but we had to stop 2 or 3 times to allow it to pump up. I will paint the outside of the car at my instructors shop with a down draft paint booth. I am very happy with my result.
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I screwed up some on the masking. My instructor friend advised me to use paper next to any place where you have paint. Paint could peel off any plastic and deposit back on the car if still wet. I used plastic where I could, made it easyer to mask off. luck for me I had no issue with any paint peeling off the plastic. Masking off does suck.
 
Beautiful, keep it going! My 67 is an original Burnt Metalic Amber car as well, but in areas under the seat, original paint, I swear it looks copper, not like your gold...but then it could be a computer color thing.
 
I had been worried about the color, would not have been my first choice but now that I have some of the car painted I truly love it. I am assuming my parts guy mixed it correctly, It looks like photos of other burnt amber cars I have seen. To be honest I have never seen a burnt amber car other than in pictures. MY parts guy called be back after I ordered the paint and asked if I was sure this is what I wanted, he said it was ugly to him! Scared the crap out of me but I stayed the course, my kids have named the car Amber so how could I change the color now? Here is a pic of how I hope mine looks when complete, less the super cool wheels.
 
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