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  1. #1 First Car - 2000 Pontiac Grand Prix GT - Red to Black 
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    Hello my name is Donny and i'm from a small town in Ontario Canada, I bought my first car on November 27th 2011 and although I liked the red, I preferred black, I picked up some chrome rims off of a 98 bonneville for $200 so I figured that was my budget for this paint job, it's not a show quality job but it's fine for me, this is my first experience with body-work, painting and first time having a car, criticism is welcome.

    Overall the paint job came out 10x better than I had hoped, and it only cost me roughly $120 and a lot of man hours.

    First day with my baby, all clean and red:



    Starting the transformation...


    Snagged some chrome rims off of a 98 bonneville:

    I'm not much of a body-man, but there was a big hole here before:

    Door Jambs being painted black:


    Plastic bumper vs Cement Parking Barrier... you be the judge:


    My little helper:

    It's not that I don't like pontiac, I just want the entire car to be black:

    And it's going black:







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    Looks pretty good. Would look a lot better with a good buffing job to make it look like glass.
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    I agree dsmuts; thats comming soon, going to detail inside and outside on a nice day in a week or two
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    cars got mad potential tho, what u planning on doing to it?
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    your first time doing body work or painting a car...... right here.

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    Nice job. I would have done the same. Red is not my color.

    03 GTP...Its got pulleys and stuff.
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    nice. now just needs power.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nixon View Post
    nice. now just needs power.
    I agree but it's my DD and I don't want to do anything too drastic to compromise that, i'm going to be going to school full time next year.
    Quote Originally Posted by KeithGTP03 View Post
    Nice job. I would have done the same. Red is not my color.
    yeah black looks way better, my original reason was because I didn't want to have to match the paint colour but the black looks much better for sure.
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    cars got mad potential tho, what u planning on doing to it?
    I was looking at putting together a turbo kit, it's my DD though so i'm not sure if I want to try anything like that.
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    your first time doing body work or painting a car...... right here.
    Thank you very much
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    Nice work. Put together a turbo kit, don't be panzy.

    JUST DO IT!
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    Quote Originally Posted by DanPrixGTP View Post
    Nice work. Put together a turbo kit, don't be panzy.

    JUST DO IT!
    Haha I might pickup a Greddy's turbo tomorrow it's my day off
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    nice ride man! not to bad of a job on the body work either! how bout the engine bay still red? color changers really aint my thing unless its a restoration but it your car. did you paint it too?

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    Quote Originally Posted by gtpeddie View Post
    nice ride man! not to bad of a job on the body work either! how bout the engine bay still red? color changers really aint my thing unless its a restoration but it your car. did you paint it too?
    Haha nope it's still red, although, I did paint the cover for my engine flat black I actually like the red on black look, makes it look different.
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