A GTO build update

[Tex Arcana]

Originally Posted by [H]ard|On

What's so hard about less people making replacement parts for cars that are becoming more rare and less popular?

A lot of them are already restored, most are hardly ever driven. More parts being made today for a GTO than 10-20 years ago?

'Til some dumbfuck in a roundelawagen slams into said classic because he was too busy jacking off onto the rich Corinthian leather while swilling a starbux, eating a scone, day trading more bank ripoff bonuses, running over grannies and kids, and fucking with the inscrutable iDrive to download more kiddie pron to jack off to onto said leather.

Just sayin'.

[Tex Arcana]

Originally Posted by Jehannum

It's not as though a stamping die is built to be disposable. Body parts are likely to be made as long as there is still sheet metal and electricity to run the hydraulic presses.

I admit, I'm not as plugged into the scene as I once was, but those old cars still go for ridiculous cash at Barrett Jackson, no? Any decline in prices could as easily be blamed on the poor economy instead of something nebulous as unpopularity.

Stamping dies do have a finite life, tho... Might explain why those damn yellow slants make such shitty copies, they're using worn out dies.

[Jehannum]

After a lot of hemming and hawing, the GTO is finally in paint. Suck it, Tex.

[GhEttOrAiD]

Tex isn't with us any more

He chose a life of immorality and no integrity, he's swinger, switch, poly for life.

[ZMan]

lookin good!

[Typhoon43]

Holy shit. I was coming in here expecting to ban some for a necrobump, but lookey what we have here. NICE man.
That a factory color for that year?

[Jehannum]

Originally Posted by typhoon43

Holy shit. I was coming in here expecting to ban some for a necrobump, but lookey what we have here. NICE man.
That a factory color for that year?

Yeah, it's the original color of the car (Pontiac called it "tyrol blue", Chevrolet called it "Marina blue", Oldsmopile called it "Bimini Blue", but it's all GM F code paint). This is a 2 part urethane with clearcoat over it where the original stuff was alkyd enamel, is the only difference.

[lollersk8s]

Is that a factory color? Interesting choice

edit: k

What was the original color on it?

[jm8881]

nvm

[Jehannum]

Originally Posted by lollersk8s

Is that a factory color? Interesting choice

edit: k

What was the original color on it?

Herp derp.

Originally Posted by Jehannum

Yeah, it's the original color of the car

[lollersk8s]

[lollersk8s]

What about interior?

[GhEttOrAiD]

Originally Posted by lollersk8s

What about interior?

there was a rip in the bench seat so he has to spend the next twelve years or so bringing a bovine calf to maturity then comes tanning and molding its hide into a leather covering

[lollersk8s]

I meant color but that sounds like the right way to go

[Jehannum]

Originally Posted by lollersk8s

What about interior?

Parchment (seats, door cards, A pillars, headliner, sail panels, and window sills) on black (dash, carpet, parcel shelf). The interior was toast when we bought the car, but the PO included all of his spares with it, which included new seat skins, headliner, sail panels, and door cards.

Naturally, it's GM vinyl, not alcantara, leather, or even pleather, but it'll do.

Some Ghettoraid-esque dipshit had spraybombed the dash two-tone (upper half black, lower half parchment), but didn't bother to mask off any overspray (or get the back of the glove box door, or the lip or anything), so that had to be corrected as well.

Before any of that goes back in, the interior is getting lined in dynamat, though.