Restoring a 93 Cobra.

aaronlstiles · Post by **aaronlstiles** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 12:56 am

Just a quick update, Got the body painted, started on all the Bumpers and side skirts this weekend.

http://s893.photobucket.com/albums/ac13 ... 3%20cobra/

black93svt · Post by **black93svt** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 1:04 pm

Looks sweet Aaron.

WillyB93 · Post by **WillyB93** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 3:01 pm

Looks like another cobra has started to survive!!

Post by **BrettT** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 3:22 pm

WillyB93 wrote:Looks like another cobra has started to survive!!

I highly agree with that. It's really cool to see Aaron bring these cobras back to life...like new!

Look's like it's really coming along well Aaron. Finish before summer?

#2098 · Post by **#2098** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 4:41 pm

more than just slightly jealous of your space and your funding

VERY COOL

SPEEDFREEK · Post by **SPEEDFREEK** » Mon Mar 07, 2011 11:31 am

Awsome work as usual.

Brett · Post by **Brett** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 7:28 pm

Aaron, where are you doing the paint work for this project?

Brett

aaronlstiles · Post by **aaronlstiles** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 11:39 am

My Garage at my House. I have a 1200 SQ foot Garage behind the house, I use 2 Fans in the Window, and wet the Floor good, I get some trash, and my Lighting is not the best, but I wet sand and Buff all my Paint Jobs, so not a big issue. I have been doing paint and body work for about 23 years. I do ok, but By no means a Pro!

Post by **BrettT** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 1:42 pm

Aaron, what are your thoughts on blending.

If you only had to repaint the front bumper and hood of a car due to some fade and rock chips. Would you just paint those two parts and try to get as close as possible match...or would you BLEND into the ORGINAL paint on the fenders in witch are in really good condtion.

I guess what Im asking is......lease amount of paint work on these cars is the way to go,,,,or getting a really good match with blending the newly painted parts with the rest of the car.

SPEEDFREEK · Post by **SPEEDFREEK** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 3:45 pm

The bumper covers dont match 100% anyways so it wouldnt make much difference and Id just blend on the front of the hood if you are just repairing chips on it.

Brett · Post by **Brett** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 3:59 pm

We'll I'd say the results look pretty good for a home garage job. Good Job!

I'm going through the same thing now with the red 93 i'm restoring. However, i'm in the beginning stages of the restore. I'm first going to strip the interior, fix the minor right rear quarter damage and fix the mechanicals.

How did you remove the side urthane side trim w/o damage and curling?

Brett

WillyB93 · Post by **WillyB93** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 7:51 pm

Brett I agree with speedfreek, just paint the bumpers and get them close and blend the hood to the fenders a bit!! Hope it turns out good!

Mark93 · Post by **Mark93** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 9:23 pm

BLEND IT WE ALL KNOW HOW PEOPLE LIKE TO PICK SOMEONES CAR TO DEATH. (I work in a high volume collision center, head painter for over 25 years) THE COLOR IS 18 YEARS OLD. IF ITS ORG.

aaronlstiles · Post by **aaronlstiles** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 11:10 pm

It all epends on the car, I can tell you this. My last 2 93R's Had lots of Paint chips in the hood. Quick fix to that is Fill in the chips with Base coat, Make sure you fill in each chip two or three times, let Each one Dry a few hours between touch up, once the third touch up has dried. Use 2000 Grit paper to sand the touch up spots smooth. Then run a buffer over the front of the hood. I did this to both R's, you could not even tell it had any chips unless you really knew what you where looking for..

For the Front cover, On red cars, the Front covers are not Base Clear, They are single stage. Not sure why ford did this, but this is only on red cars. Both teal and black cars had clear on the front covers. So I am with speed, it didn't match when new, so a slight color difference in shade on the cover is not a big deal.

If you can touch it up, do so, try not to repaint unless really needed. They are only original once, I prefer Chips that where touched up over repaint anyday. Just my oinion is all.

Post by **BrettT** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 1:09 pm

Thanks guys for the opinons, idea and thoughts. Im going to keep the paint work to a bare minimum.

I have one painter says he can take a Picture of the paint and send it to a auto paint company that will match the paint best a possiable.

First of heard of this....not sure on how a picture will give the best match result. But sound interesting.

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