Baby Gets A New Coat

This is what we started with. We've come a long way, haven't we?

Here we go, sitting in the booth, ready for the first layer of paint to be applied.

Today's paints are pretty powerful chemicals. Caution is taken anytime they are readied for use.

With a basecoat/ clearcoat process, the House of Kolor black was applied: two coats of Koseal II black, two coats of black basecoat, and three coats of clear.

With the front end off the car, it was easy to apply paint to the doorjambs and other areas that are more difficult to get to with all the sheet metal in place.

Moving on from the spray booth and sanding with 800-grit, the Goodmark Camaro was meticulously covered with adhesive paper so that artist Mike Lewis could apply the layout for the flames.

The doors were covered first, then the front end.

It takes a steady hand and a sharp eye to do flames. If these look familiar, that's because Lewis was the same artist that applied the flames to the SUPER CHEVY Goodmark Chevelle project from a couple years back.

With the flames pencilled in...

...out came the Xacto knife to cut away the areas that were to receive paint.

Here's how the flame pattern lays across the driver's door.

And here flows the color. First the flames are outlined in blue...

...then a white basecoat to make the yellow pop.

The flames are finished off with two shades of yellow, orange, and red.

Finally, with the color on, and the entire car clearcoated and buffed, we can see how awesome this Camaro looks. Can't wait to see it at the shows.