Kevin's 93' Ls400 AYEEEE

[drift55]

Nice rolling shot! that jetta is sweet too!

[coronawags]

Your car sir legitimatly makes me firm in the pants. :p bahaha

[KEVIN.E]

thanks for the props, I haven't updated in a while because I haven't done much. This past week I decided to try and clean up the car and focus on some details. First I wanted to try out incorporating wet sanding and buffing into painting to create finishes without orange peel. I ditched the matte black finish on my grill and badges and resprayed them in gloss black. I don't have pics for everything yet, but here's the trim.



And since I had already started cutting and buffing my car but never finished I decided to go back and finish that up. You can see on the right side where it hasn't been polished yet.



Also pulled the fenders and skirts and sunroof visor. Looked pretty rad to me, I also kind of prefer the car without the visor, but I like having it because I don't know anyone else that has one.





Since I was pleased with how the grill came out, I decided to tackle the fenders, I'm aware it wont be Toyota black, but if its at least gloss black and semi legit its an improvement, as long as it's not an obvious rattle can job. It took 3 cans of stripper to remove that outdoor texture paint I sprayed on, and I had to strip it to metal in order to save myself from some sanding.




Stripped


Primered


Glossed and cleared, at this point I had already wet sanded with 2000 grit and started polishing.


I think where I went wrong, was buffing it with a microfiber, and then rebuffing it with a Terry cloth. Or I may have wet sanded too far, over buffed, or all of the above. I ended up fading the hell out of the finish and it refused to re-gloss itself so I am currently redoing it. Good news is that all I have to do is reclear/wetsand/polish and not the entire process.

[DannyE32]

anyway is nice that the whole car will be glossy again! she'll look very clean

[aLaFleur]

I can't wait to see it all shiny. Keep up the good work man.

[KEVIN.E]

My car has been fenderless for awhile (2ish months), I just haven't had the motivation to finish them. Anyways I came home last week to this, and NO I was not parked sideways, my car was pushed sideways, I can park perfectly fine. It's pushed over the parking barrier but you can't really tell. The front bumper is fine now it just has a scuff.





I'm not sure yet what I'm going to do. Fix this ucf10 or buy another one? If I get another one I can swap everything over, but it wouldn't be the same car. And if I were to save up for another car I'm not sure I'd choose a ucf10, maybe id get a ucf20 or maybe I would get another car completely. I don't want to give up on my vision and what I had planned for this car. Whatever happens, I'm coming out harder and cleaner by next summer.

Before anyone asks YES, money is an issue. Mommy doesn't foot the bill for my car, nor do I have any money saved up. I was barely affording Liability insurance and had to cancel my policy when Fall qtr started. I do not have insurance and when I did it was only Liability so I would have been screwed either way. No I am not Sherlock Holmes and there is no trail to follow.

[scweet14]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:'(

i would say save any parts you can, and scrap the rest, and then try and buy another ucf and build that one up.

i would be heartbroken if that happend to me, sorry for your loss

[milano_red]

That really sucks! I hope it all works out bud!

[StanceRasta]

Damn, sorry to see that happen. The car is wicked nice though!

[softg]

would that not fall under vandalism and covered under the comprehensive insurance? may be something to look into

bummer regardless

[ullyeus]

Wow that sucks ass

[Justin.]

Damn this shit sucks! Was such a nice car! Good luck with the decision..

[MrDanguy]

Just went through the whole thread.
Saw the last picture and started to cry like a girl.

[dav3design]

ah man

[Xtra Big Kahuna]

Did you beat up whoever did this?