Bought this car on Monday, June 30th and started sanding on Friday July 4th.

How I bought the car.











We thought that painting the trim before starting to paint would be a good idea, turned out not to be. I only have 1 picture of it sanded so here it is. Btw we only sanded down the surface rust, didn't fix the rusted through pieces (we're lazy teenagers what can I say). We also didn't fix the dent in the hood.



We sanded it down with 220 grit and some of these cool sanding blocks all by hand.

Here it is after about 2-3 coats (We spray painted the bumpers).





Then we wet sanded with 400 and 600 grit, yeah that's the highest we found at Home Depot. Now we have 1000 grit to do the final wetsand and buff, once I find a buffer.

Here is the final coat.





And here's is how it sits right now









If you have any questions feel free to ask. The roof still could use some work but I'm happy with how it looks. Just needs lowered and then possibly getting some BMW Bottlecaps. Nothing major.

 

nice results. i did my $50 pj on my ef sedan in 4 days as well. how many coats did you do? you painted with that dented hood?

 

Yeah we painted over the dent and probably 5 or 6 full coats.

 

should of made it a 60 dollar paint job and buy a can of bondo and try to fix the dent b4 painting but its looking good bro.

 

not the best but deffinitely good for 50 bucks huh!! good job, keep us updated.

 

I think it looks good for $50. What kind of paint did you use?

 

WOW LOOKS NICE FOR YOU

 

Nice job!!

 

nice result so ur telling me u did all this buy urself? i tried doing it to my left fender and it came out ashy and not shiny can u help me out?