yes its a dark green metalic with lots of pearl and flake

That looks sweet!Is that a color you made, or a formula pulled from a factory card?

Factory, I was torn between three, Porsche, Lexus and Honda.

This is dark olive metallic from a 2018 CRV

The paint looks incredible :goggles: !!!!

The paint looks sweet!

Looks great ... you must be stoked.

lovely build XLT, looks like your coming down to the finish line, and I love dark metallic green, my first camaro was a Fathom green 69 and it night looked black and it really pops in daylight cant wait to see final pics of this...
Great Job!

Need to vent...
 

Still very slow going at the Body shop.. but I am on the one inch line.. just passed the 3 year mark on that.. :lolhit:
Ordered Glass.. bought the Best i could find .. paid close to 2k....took weeks to get..
Problem 1..
Windshield has a chip in the bottom.
Problem 2.. just found it today
door glass is for a 68/69
Delay.. at least 2 more weeks..

Ordered new arm rest kit comes with arm rest, arm rest pads and hardware..
What arrives.. a single are rest pad in an open bag..
Wait a week after calling.. what shows up. a pair of arm rest pads.. no arm rests, no hardware.. Call # 2.. Still waiting on rest of kit.. (ricks Camaro/ Ecklers)

Ordered headliner trim, first problem.. ordered black.. red arrived.
Take 2 arrives black, rear OER bag is open its a 3 piece kit,, center piece missing.. Call Classic industries.. and they knew with almost no explanation what was missing like it happens all the time. More delay..

I haven't even started the motor yet.. still have to find the multitude of gremlins.. i expect to encounter just cause thats the wya things go. :headspin:

Things just aren't going my way.. and I am really getting tired .. all the bull**** is sucking out any fun this hobby is for me right now . :drowninga::bang:

The sad part about paint jail is, crooked shops will take forever to paint your car and its cool as long as you leave it there. Once you say that you want to take or pick up your car, they try and charge you a storage fee as if you did something wrong to them. Then you're in a cross match if you don't pay them, they'll keep your car and punch a title on it and sell it. You can't go to court in a timely manner and calling the cops will do no justice as it's a civil matter.

Nothing like that going on here, just a single man shop with super high quality outcomes which takes longer.. Demand is high and when big dollar cars roll in they move to the front of the line .. because there owners are rich.. I am not..
But I am literally days away from paint and body being done.. .. I am just feeling worn out on all the things that have been going on with my car and parts ect.. I just need to get back to enjoying this hobby vs feeling beat up by it.. it doest help that its winter in New England.. so things slowdown..

Hang in there, don’t get discouraged! Sometimes getting the last 10% done seems to take 90% of the effort. No shame in taking a week or two off...it usually helps me so I don’t rush the outcome and make mistakes. Just “embrace the suck” and keep making forward progress. When you get there, it’ll all be worth it!:cheering:

We still need to go have a beer.

Some update better than none
 

got my wheel and hub..
PS anyone with a roll cage have any tips for installing a headliner :bang:

YES.. we will .. spring is around the corner..

I am sad to say the only update I have is that I modified my kick panels.. .. the stock ones were very hard to navigate the roll cage.. and since I am am not using astro vents... I cut out the old and plastic weldled in a 1/16 piece of sheet plastic. will be covered in leather..

Body Shop Jail is F%^&* torture..

Update still in paint prison.. but these panels are awesome
 

So my car has been suffering in paint prison I am supposed to get it this week.. please say a prayer that it happens cause this time it has to be true otherwise I am going to loose it.. .. in the meantime Frank V sent me these awesome panels. https://lateral-g.net/forums/member.php?u=11526

Fingers crossed for you!

not quite there yet at the body shop.
 

But love how well these have been fitted plus the hrs spent polishing the moldings sure appear to be paying off

Headliner
 

Today , Headliner, rear bumper license plate light, fuel gauge on the rail, some hose tightening preparing for startup and a piller plates
Getting closer to coming the home shop..

The headliner came out great.

headliner does look great. Is it stock? i keep going back and forth between stock and the TMI one piece.

Stock

So close.. and yet so far
 

SO planned to have the car home for the 4th of July long weekend and Get **** done.. but alas. not ready to leave the Body shop yet.. One more week..
GOD Willing.. keep yer fingers crossed for me..

Fingers crossed for you. It looks good in that picture:thumbsup:

The valance
 

First pic with the nose on painted.. cant wait to see what it looks like with the billet lights and Grill...

Grill'n
 

still lots to tweak but .. here is the look form the Grill

still in hell
 

Still stuck in Body shop hell.... posting this to keep the flame alive and my hope up that I will get her home soon

Paint prison sucks.

Agreed.. Never Again.. !

Keep the faith it's looking sweet!

exhaust in progress.
 

man this has been a journey of highs and lows..
Finally getting the exhaust done.. after so many years in paint prison..
Getting around the watts is going to be a chore but excited for the outcome.

Hey it’s looking good! Just dump those muffler and call it good. :lol:

Super low cars w/crowded rear real-estate sometimes favor going under the rear axle to route the pipes to the end of the vehicle. Keep that possibility in mind.

Yep I am confident we can get over the Watts. so when I did the suspension we built it a 4 inch riser to fit the exhaust and the trunk is over the frame rails buying more room.

Project Dead cat.. did this and an I following Paytons lead.
https://lateral-g.net/forums/showthr...t=32491&page=7

Congrats on getting the car out of jail! Exhaust looks great. You're almost there.

Exhaust coming along
 

some really nice work.. a new a local shop made of up a team tired of other shops ripping folks off.. it a conglomerate.. of people.. very cool..

Nice work! We don't have much in the way of a dedicated exhaust shop cable of that work anywhere near me.

Being that I'm at that point and waiting to get my exhaust done...that looks very nice. Super nice to be quite exact. :king:

looks great!! what Black widow mufflers did you go with?

3" Venom 250