Well, she has been in the body shop for 375 days and finally today I got to see what 110 Red / 72000 PPG looks like. That was her original color until somebody decided to paint burgandy overtop of her and then spray gray primer on top of that. What an incredible group of knowledge this site has to offer. I have been looking/reading/learning and trying to incorporate as much as I can myself with the support of this car club. Just a big "thanks" goes out to all of you.

I should have the car out of the body shop hopefully this coming Monday, then off to the glass shop, then back to my man cave to get the interior back in. I'll post again once the Z gets re-assembled. What a journey!

Disassembled and panel painted... with PPG... doesn't get any better than that!! Once the body work and paint are finally done - the real fun begins.

I hope that during the previous 375 days you were getting the rest of the component parts refreshed and ready to reinstall. Now it's just a matter of finding the other 400 parts you've decided to replace or refresh and getting them ready....

enjoy the process...

Carl B.

I love fresh paint. PPG is my favorite brand to shoot too. Looks great!!!

Zero Z

Richmonds a great place. I use to live there in the mid to late 60's off of West Broad. A lot has changed since then.

I might be partial, but Persimmon red is the best Z color, IMO. :nervous:

Paul,

I couldn't agree with you more. Now, if I can just get the body shop to give me my car back. It was due back so many times I can't keep my dates right. The last promise was today, but naturally that did not happen, maybe next week. I've got all new interior parts to go back in her (other than a dash - my son and I went to a salvage yard and pulled a dash out - I ebayed the parts - damn, what a project. I thought about doing it to my car with a new one but it's too big of a project for me - a dash cap is much easier for now, maybe on down the road).

Thanks for the vote of color, your picture looks great!

Actually, the leaves have had their "fall colours" since they were born. They simply fill up with chlorophyll in the warmer months and turn green.

My paint was finalized yesterday. The techs are going to have to go back a catch a couple to three issue but overall everything is painted and waiting for re-assembly (they are going to undercoat as they put it back together to make sure all panels and underneth are covered. I live in a snow belt in the mountains of NC near the ski lodges but do not plan on driving on the NC roads due to salt and brine.

I had purcased a can of spray paint from Les (the one that is made for the coloring of the rear panels and the front grille). My paint tech put it on the PPG color gizmo and got an exact match for the rear panels. I'm sure the PPG paint will out live Les's with UV and heat. I will try to get the color code and post so everybody can have it for future reference.

Hopefully I can get the car back by this coming Friday and begin working on the interior.

Hey looks good Mitchell. I think thats the best color Z also. It must feel good to finally be (almost) done.

Zak,

Thanks for the vote of confidence. I failed to order new roof rails and pillars and they just got delivered yesterday from MSA. This project is much more expensive than I originally budgeted. All of us need to keep the value and prices up on these cars so our investment will increase. It kills me to see a fairly nice restored Z car go on ebay for a song and a dance when you know the owner is loosing money. :stupid: