At the end of the 1999 season, some nine years later I took the car apart for its third paint Job. It
experienced a slight love affair with the guard rail on one of the last outings at the track that year.
Not a bad one, Just a nice swipe down the side. Thats one of the draw backs to those 80 to 90
foot out wheelies. When it stays in a wheel stand that long, it sometimes ends up way off track
when the horizon comes back into view. It leaves little or no time to correct. After that little mishap I
thought it would be a good time to change colors. I had wanted to paint it red the last time, but
there was already a Super gas red 240z that was in the magazines quite often so I went a head
and went back white at that time. I figured several years had went by, Its now time. The winter was
spent repairing the damage, pulling the motor, and all the doors and things to do the color
change. My brother Ken had painted my other red Z a few years back and was just so able to be
available for this project as well. Thank you big brother. He had to do it in stages. He shot the
fenders, doors, hood and hatch all separate from the rest of the car. There was not enough room
in my garage to do it all at once. Everything was done with base coat clear coat. We had built a
make shift paint booth with Plastic vis queue, and fans. It worked out great. Very little dirt. After I got
the car back together I moved it to Kens shop and we wet sanded it and he finished the process
by buffing it all out. These pictures are far from what it turned out like. At that time I had a real dud
of a camera.
experienced a slight love affair with the guard rail on one of the last outings at the track that year.
Not a bad one, Just a nice swipe down the side. Thats one of the draw backs to those 80 to 90
foot out wheelies. When it stays in a wheel stand that long, it sometimes ends up way off track
when the horizon comes back into view. It leaves little or no time to correct. After that little mishap I
thought it would be a good time to change colors. I had wanted to paint it red the last time, but
there was already a Super gas red 240z that was in the magazines quite often so I went a head
and went back white at that time. I figured several years had went by, Its now time. The winter was
spent repairing the damage, pulling the motor, and all the doors and things to do the color
change. My brother Ken had painted my other red Z a few years back and was just so able to be
available for this project as well. Thank you big brother. He had to do it in stages. He shot the
fenders, doors, hood and hatch all separate from the rest of the car. There was not enough room
in my garage to do it all at once. Everything was done with base coat clear coat. We had built a
make shift paint booth with Plastic vis queue, and fans. It worked out great. Very little dirt. After I got
the car back together I moved it to Kens shop and we wet sanded it and he finished the process
by buffing it all out. These pictures are far from what it turned out like. At that time I had a real dud
of a camera.
Painting it red Winter of 1999
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