Lizard Skin done. Black Top coat on all but the trunk and inside the quarters.
Body color base coat, clear coat as top coat for the trunk and inside the quarter panels.
Will eventually get covered with a carpeted trunk enclosure, but until then it will be body color.
Engine bay received base coat/clear coat also.
Next - Assembly, a little more block sanding and it will be ready for paint.
Looks black without much light.
But it's modified Viper Gunmetal Pearl... covered with sanding dust of course.
Already a bunch of sanding dust piling up inside...
Considered using sheet sound deadener over paint in the trunk but decided paint over lizard skin instead.
Decided to mask off the spare tire well. No lizard skin in the well, just paint.
Glad we decided to go with body color for the topcoat over the lizard skin in the trunk instead of black.
I know, it looks black in pictures but it is gray.
It's also parked under another car that is on a lift so there isn't much light getting in there.
Planning to put a correct diameter skinny spare in the spare tire well. Will need to be a bigger diameter wheel than the original 14" spare that came in the car, to fit over the rear discs for sure.
14" Rallye wheels don't clear, I was going to try and use them as rollers but they wouldn't fit over the calipers.
I believe I can use a 2008-2019 Ford Taurus spare wheel and tire (155/70-R17, 5x114.3 BP) unless we change to a taller tire size.
This size will lay flat in the well and not stick up higher than the floor. The rim is 17"x4.5"
Only calculating so far... have not bought one yet but should be relatively inexpensive and not too hard to find.
Will see if I can find one local first, but there seems to be lots of them on EBay.
Pic of one on ebay
A Google search returned 35 vehicles that use 5x114.3 BP... so there are other candidates out there but the Taurus tire size is almost a perfect match for our tire diameters, front and rear... for now.
