Car painting and restoring! (hey its still art-ish?)

[Drake Wingfire]

Just a random little thing thats kept me occupied the past days here.

I recently helped my mate pic up a nice lill car for him, a 93 Civic CX, its a pretty decent little car, always had a soft sport of hatch backs myself. Sadly when we got the car it had numerous body flaws and the front bumper looked like a wreck and made the car as a whole look like crap. That was until I went at her with nothing more than 2 cans of paint, 1 can of primer and a little bit of sand paper and dragon muscle lol. Here is the end result! 

http://www.furaffinity.net/full/3728082/

There are some flaws in the paint I admit, sadly even after all my sanding it as smooth as I could the  differences in the paint still showed through a little bit, but ultimately I am very pleased with it, I even painted the side grills in so it would look more uniform and nice like the higher trim levels of that car (IE: the higher models has all black grills by default)

-Drake Wingfire

[Disel]

the cor lookes grate man   i do my oun work to my truck to but the pante on mine is rely sade, i put a lot of work in to it and steal the F150's(that is what i like to call it) lookes lives somthing to be disiret

[Drake Wingfire]

Hehe well if all is mechanically sound your a step ahead of the dudes who can only shine up their cars lol, I admit I do know a bit of info and such about this generation of civic (hell you don't own a vehicle for ever and know nothing about it! lol) but I lack the nerves to start tearing things apart, I would love to have a legit second car for myself (as my mate probably doesn't want me using his civic as a project to learn more about them)

But I cannot deny I love to do body work, there is just something to be said for restoring a car to its former glory no matter what the make or model its just fun to see a car looking good (or at least presentable) again!

I hope to learn a bit more about car mechanics myself, perhaps keep these puppys me and my mate have running for years to come. 

[Disel]

mechanically sound not cout, the f150's triney stikes at times and that is some thing i don't know to much about   but all and all for a 1992 work truck to chanernl driving truck the f150 is a relly nice truck

you don't know about trises?  do you

[Drake Wingfire]

Transmission?  I wish I knew anything about those lol. I am trying to be a bit more mechanically inclined, I even hope to learn how to weld some day!

Right now im getting more and more into bodywork and restoration. *chuckles* If I don't look out im gonna turn into one of those middle aged guys with some (well by that time) restored 80s - 90s car XD I would love to keep my car to the point it became a rarity to see on the roads, I have seen a few 70's civics running around and they are fixed and shined preeety damn good

[Wyrd-Hotd]

Ooohhh... I will be following this one thats for sure! XD and if you have any questions, you know im game ^.=.^  As for welding, its actually pretty easy >.=.O

[Drake Wingfire]

hehe I know it cant be too complex, but im one who like to make sure I actually understand something than just jump ass in first and go "yeah yeah, im a professional yada yada" (insert pet peeve about people doing that here)

Hehe there is something about BC dragons and civics it seems, I guess it runs in our blood! We outta form a club! lol

[Wyrd-Hotd]

Ha ha we should, the only downside is we really do need more, or at least more people in B.C. who are into cars ^.=.^

[Drake Wingfire]

Well my mate shall be moving here soon, he's a big time car nutt, he's more a domestic kinda guy though but he's not all pompous and 1 track minded like "graah! classic muscle is the only good car evarr!!!"

[Wyrd-Hotd]

even if he was we would convert him XD

[Drake Wingfire]

Well he's got the civic!

Now he just needs the passion! *giggles* 

[Wyrd-Hotd]

Ha ha totally XD and he WILL get it ^.=.^ how can you not love a civic?