Originally Posted by bmorgan
Well, you were my inspiration to take this on, and I hope you don't mind, but I am printing a copy of a picture of yours to take with me to show the shade that I want them to be. I am really looking forward to getting them done. Once I have the tails back, and I am satisfied with the results, I will most likely take my fronts and sides to him to do. I will have to strip my sides as I did them with nightshades. I was recommended to use this guy by a cooworker that has seen tail lights that he has done, and he said that they look just like glass. The painter does the paint for a high end Mustang restoration shop that does restos/resto mods on very expensive Stangs. The owner of the shop was on a recent episode of Trucks on SPEED. So, I am pretty sure that I will like the outcome.
I am flattered as you have one of my fvorite SRTs out there.
Bob, if you are confident that the guy is going to do a good job, and it sounds like he will, for sure, I would offer a little advise my painter told me - if you want all of them to look the same, do them all at once. You will get them close if you wait, but they will be identicle when done together with the same mixture and number of coats. I am fairly certain we used a 10% black to clear mixture and sprayed them a total of 5-7 times to get the desired shade. Mine on the black car were vinyl and too dark, plus after time they appear matte versus these that will look like glass. I have no doubts you will be very happy with the results.
You may have done this with the nightshades, but if not, when wet sanding the corners, use s razor and shave the lettering that wax always gets caught in and they look even better
That was a fun weekend at the shop....
