'75 Swinger, The Dartness!
Well, Now I finally have something to show for all my time. After having given up on getting a chance to paint under the hood of my car, I GOT THE CHANCE TO PAINT UNDER THE HOOD OF MY CAR!!!! HOOOORAY!!!!
*ahem*
Also, having used up almost all of my paint, except for perhaps most of a cup I said to myself, "Y'know, I'd originally planned to paint the motor body color, and I have just enough paint to paint the motor body color, so y'know what? I'm going to paint the motor body color."
And so I did. And here's the pics to go with it.
I decided on a different orange than originally, and I'm glad I did. It's Tangerine/Go-Mango Perl (It's cross referenced under both names) It's actually alot redder in person. There's also a couple of spots you can't see where I couldn't get to, and a big run where I tried to fix where a big moth got stuck in it. But hey, it's under the hood of a daily driver, who cares?.
The valve covers are crinkle black, and all the brackets and other things are going to be black. Intake's been switched for the 4bbl intake I pulled from the junkyard truck (painted cast coat aluminum) I'm going to be getting a cheapie chrome air cleaner and hit it with the crinkle black too. I'm not a fan of chrome, and there will be very little of it on this car.
Speaking of chrome, I masked alot of things under the hood with aluminum foil, and the overspray turns the aluminum the sickest red-gold I've ever seen. I must experiment with this.
one last note, I took off the masking tape from the turn signals like that you see in the picture, but I think I like it like that, and if I still like it when I light up the marker lights, I'm remasking and painting it like that. :D And yes, the license plate it STAYING!!
Well, Now I finally have something to show for all my time. After having given up on getting a chance to paint under the hood of my car, I GOT THE CHANCE TO PAINT UNDER THE HOOD OF MY CAR!!!! HOOOORAY!!!!
*ahem*
Also, having used up almost all of my paint, except for perhaps most of a cup I said to myself, "Y'know, I'd originally planned to paint the motor body color, and I have just enough paint to paint the motor body color, so y'know what? I'm going to paint the motor body color."
And so I did. And here's the pics to go with it.
I decided on a different orange than originally, and I'm glad I did. It's Tangerine/Go-Mango Perl (It's cross referenced under both names) It's actually alot redder in person. There's also a couple of spots you can't see where I couldn't get to, and a big run where I tried to fix where a big moth got stuck in it. But hey, it's under the hood of a daily driver, who cares?.
The valve covers are crinkle black, and all the brackets and other things are going to be black. Intake's been switched for the 4bbl intake I pulled from the junkyard truck (painted cast coat aluminum) I'm going to be getting a cheapie chrome air cleaner and hit it with the crinkle black too. I'm not a fan of chrome, and there will be very little of it on this car.
Speaking of chrome, I masked alot of things under the hood with aluminum foil, and the overspray turns the aluminum the sickest red-gold I've ever seen. I must experiment with this.
one last note, I took off the masking tape from the turn signals like that you see in the picture, but I think I like it like that, and if I still like it when I light up the marker lights, I'm remasking and painting it like that. :D And yes, the license plate it STAYING!!