Palmers Customs 59 Corvette build "ZR59"

[1965_SS]

Originally Posted by Palmers Customs

Thank you Wes. To answer your question, the matte black is single stage. You can see and feel an edge between the black and red stripe, I don't know of any technique that would allow you to have a gloss and matte finish next to each other without feeling the edge. I chose the single stage to try to minimize the thickness of the edge. It only took two coats of single stage black. If I did it with a base coat clear coat the stripe would have been thicker, (two coats color and two coats matte clear). I'm not much of a fan for matte black stripes because of the edge it leaves, but the owner insisted on the center stripe being matte black and now that it's all done it was definitely the right call.

Awesome build

I'm not a body and paint guy so this might be a stupid question, but could you tape off the matte black stripe and then clear coat the paint to build it up to the height of the matte black stripe and then have no "edge"?

[Palmers Customs]

Originally Posted by TandL

Awesome build

I'm not a body and paint guy so this might be a stupid question, but could you tape off the matte black stripe and then clear coat the paint to build it up to the height of the matte black stripe and then have no "edge"?

Can't say I have ever tried that. I just don't know how clean the paint edges would be when they come together. You would still feel an edge either way.

[daemon2]

More please

[214Chevy]

Looking good!!

[Rybar]

This vette is awesome, thanks for taking the time to post all the build shots and paint process. Well done.

[SS 454]

Damn it looks beautiful.

The picture is from Autoblog click on the link to see more
ZR59 on Autoblog

[preston]

Great car. Thanks for the photos on building the aluminum trim, a lot of build threads kind of leave out the middling details, going from initial cut to final finish in two photos. I dig the photos with welding beads on them as they give me insight into how the parts are actually mated and hope that even big aluminum beads can be effectively metal finished to perfection.

Its hard to tell but I think you painted all of teh aluminum ?
Otherwise how do you keep it from tarnishing ? does the owner have to brush/polish it once in a while ? I'm pretty sure it looks painted but just curious.

[Palmers Customs]

Originally Posted by preston

Great car. Thanks for the photos on building the aluminum trim, a lot of build threads kind of leave out the middling details, going from initial cut to final finish in two photos. I dig the photos with welding beads on them as they give me insight into how the parts are actually mated and hope that even big aluminum beads can be effectively metal finished to perfection.

Its hard to tell but I think you painted all of teh aluminum ?
Otherwise how do you keep it from tarnishing ? does the owner have to brush/polish it once in a while ? I'm pretty sure it looks painted but just curious.

Thanks again for the compliments. All the trim and bumpers on the car are painted.

[gmwhynot]

Originally Posted by MoparCar

Wow, what an awesome build. Your quality of the build is top notch for sure. Thanks for posting it.

Question on your matte black stripe. Is this a matte clear over a black basecoat or an actual matte black paint? Also are you able to lay this "flush" with the red stripe or is it on top of the other paint where you can actually feel the matte black layer on top?
I'm building a Mopar and most had some kind of flat black accents over the years and looking to do a similar accent with minimal ridge/rise over the basecoat and clear.

Thanks-Wes

There is a way I have done once but i am not sure of the long term effect. Clear both colors together with regular clear, then sand it flat, then reclear everything with matte clear then mask off the area you want flat and colorsand and buff the rest of the finish. When you color sand and buff matte clear it shines as good as regular clear.

[rjsjea]

Where are those headlights from? I like that style of integrated turn signals

I dig the paint scheme