Finally done with my car...pictures included

[Voltage XX]

Well, as many of you know from my talking about it the last couple months, I've been working on the huge project of fixing up and painting my car, and I know a couple people had said they were interested in seeing pictures of it when I was done, so....here we are. I've got some before and after pictures for ya.

[NewFnShow]

Dude, that is SWEET. How did you do the flames and stuff?

[ohairefan4life]

simple call up Xzibit and get your ride pimped at West Coast Customs and get the giovanne rims. Frankly i think that Tom is the dude with long hair who does the awsome paint jobs now.

[Voltage XX]

haha my friend keeps telling me to get some giovanni (sp?) spinners.
Anyways thanks for the comments. The way we did the flames, was to paint the entire area orange, then lay down tape along the whole side. Then I had a pattern sort of thing for the flames that I had drawn up and cut out from a huge piece of paper. I traced 'em onto the tape, then we cut around the outline with a razorblade and peeled away the extra, so what needed to stay orange (the flames) was covered with tape, and we could just spray over everything else with the silver.
It's kind of hard to explain but overall isn't too tough compared to the rest of the project at least.

And ohairefan....Aren is the man, because he acts like he's been doing a little too much painting without the gas mask down, if ya know what I mean. LOL that's what my dad said one time which I found rather funny.
But West Coast Customs is a bit too far away, so I have to resort to starting up my own little company, Craze Customs Painting.

[ohairefan4life]

Yea spinners rule if your ghetto lol. West Coast always puts the same rims on. Yea Aren needs to start using a gas mask. My favorite is the black electricition guy he cracks me up with how he talks like he nos everything. I know west coast is across the continent for you i was joking and giving u a compliment at the same time.

[TheRick]

I almost started laughing my ass off because I got all amped to see your car and the first thing I saw was the before picture. Awesome job man, I love the real low profile skirting.

[Voltage XX]

LOL hey now, don't be dissin' the "before" pics. That thing was a monster even back then. Thanks though.

[TheRick]

Oh I'm sure it was a monster...just a two-toned brown monster with a softball sized dent in the back and what appears to be a rear bumper rusting off over the exhaust pipe. I don't know about you guys, but I prefer the non-rusting, dent-free version with flames. You have any interior pics?

[Voltage XX]

Best part is, that two-tone brown was really like 3 or 4 tone. The people that owned it before I guess had done something messed up with the hood and one of the front fenders, so it was like a completely different shade of brown, and really rough and cracking. And yeah, over the tailpipe was really rusted away. We had a replacement quarter panel welded on for that, and on the other side too actually. That and all the dents and stuff were handled at a body shop.

As for the interior, I haven't done anything to it yet, but that might be a summer project maybe, as I'd really like to get the interior done too. It looks a little weird being the old tan, but surprisingly it's not AS big a problem as I expected it would be.

[mercutio80]

You actually managed to make an El Camino look good.

Congratulations!

[Voltage XX]

How dare you speak badly of any El Camino!!

[Pike]

Your car ruled even before you had it painted. As long as you don't get one of those stickers on your windshield that has a huge word on it it's awesome. I knew a guy who had the word "SPEEDMASTER" across the top of his windshield. From then on he was known as.. THE SPEEDMASTER! Mastering speed the world over! And also his mom used to go to his parties and get wasted and pretty much bring everything to an embarassing halt. Poor guy.

[Voltage XX]

Pike said:

Your car ruled even before you had it painted. As long as you don't get one of those stickers on your windshield that has a huge word on it it's awesome.

Actually I was thinking of designing my own that says something like "Voltage Customs" or "Toxic Customs" or something nifty like that, for my awesome made-up car-painting company. LOL

I knew a guy who had the word "SPEEDMASTER" across the top of his windshield. From then on he was known as.. THE SPEEDMASTER! Mastering speed the world over! And also his mom used to go to his parties and get wasted and pretty much bring everything to an embarassing halt. Poor guy.