SCORED!!!!!

So I went to the 50% off sale at the local pick a part in hopes of picking up a few knick knack pieces from a blue 85 sr5 coupe I had seen last weekend. I got there at 7:45 and had walked a few rows when I came across an 87 Red SR5 Coupe with black interior! Ok, before you purists bust my balls, I have yet to find a clean GTS to pick out the interior. The odometer read 120,122 and the interior (with the exception of some dog hair) was super clean. To say the least I picked it clean. Other than the dash board, climate control, Radio and front seats, I took ever interior panel inside that car. I found the back half of the black carpet i needed, all the vents, seat belts in black, rear seats, headliner and all the little black parts and screws, even the trunk/gas latch was clean and is now in my car. I picked it all up for $130!!! I took a picture of my haul, but for some reason it didn't keep. I can finally get around to finishing the interior and get the junk car out of the garage.
Tonight I finished up the drivers side door. I installed the Solex door lock and swapped in all the black parts from the SR5. As you can see from the pics, they are super clean. All I did was dust them off a little, next week I'll get in there and do a super clean detail on all the parts. Here's a couple pics of tonights work.

I know what you 're thinking, but these panels will have to do until I can find a clean set of Black GTS pieces

New Goodies!

I picked up a bunch on new molding pieces from my Dad's shop. I'm still missing quite a few, but I got the major ones that needed changing. Tonight I installed new rubber and trim pieces on the driver and passenger doors as well as doing the dreaded side moldings. The door moldings are tough to keep even, but I'm pretty happy with the final result. Tomorrow morning the local "pick a part" is having a 50% off day, so I'm hoping to get lucky and find me an 86 in the yard.

Picture d here is my 2 year old son Nick, scuffing the paint a little so that the molding will stick better :) Nice job Nick!

Final results...phew it's even :)

It's all in the details

I've been spending some time doing a bunch of little things. Rear taillight trim was faded and had over spray on them. I masked them up and shot them with some "body trim' black and they turned out really good. I also picked up a pretty decent rear deck in piece in black, black brake light housing, trunk carpet and repainted the plate that holds the carpet in place at the trunk opening. To tell you how sick I am, every bolt that comes off the car gets cleaned with a tooth brush and then shot with black semi gloss. I doubt anyone will notice any of these little things, but I want to "sweat the details" that's what makes it fun.
I also got the Black SSR's mounted up on the tires....now I need to decide if I want to have a set of the Gold SSR's powder coated black or have the black rears powder coated Gold. I mounted the gold and blacks on their own side and now I just have to figure out which way to go. The Gold wheels really make the paint "pop" in the sun, but once I have the Zenki Black lip and the black body moldings back on, black wheels may give it that "sinister" look. I'm not in a big rush to decide, but I'll have to eventually :)
Rich

Wow some progress!!!! Rattle can style

I finally got a chance to work on the car tonight. Originally when I bought the car, I had intended on restoring it to factory original colors, well that obviously went out the window. During that time I manage to buy a sweet uncracked blue dashboard from Mike in WA (kitsune) for a great deal, but that problem now is that the blue dash won't look good with the current color. I've been trying to find a nice black one, but with no real luck. So, I remembered way back in the day when my dad painted the maroon door panels on our 73 240Z with black vinyl spray paint and it came out good. Figuring the new paint couldn't be any worse, I decided to go for it.
I took a trip to Pep Boys and 6 bucks later I was out the door with a can of Dupli-Color Black Vinyl Paint. I prepped it using by washing it throughly with a mild detergent and water. Dried if off, shook the can of paint for a couple of minutes and started laying down the color. I started by painting all the bottom parts you most likely will not see along with the sides and back, saving the main part of the dash for last. I applied about 5 even coats using less than a full can. The color laid down really good and is even too. It doesn't have that duller factory look, but more of a "Armor All" look. Either way I don't care, I'm happy with it and it's one more thing knocked off the list :)