Dear Darla, I **** your stinkin' guts.

[WICKED WEISS]

Can I touch your beard.

[C-Hutch]

Got back into the booth to sling some paint on the bumper, valance, and repaint the hood. The hood is still giving me problems. Something keeps contaminating the paint or paint surface or something. Not sure what's going on with it. But the rear end is almost done and I'm stoked on how it looks so far.

Getting everything apart









Sanding the hood down the first time to get all the weird clearcoat ripples out of it.



Rear bumper and valance





Some big areas on the hood rejected, so I had to pay a visit to the paint store since I didn't have enough to coat the whole hood again.



Continuing to sand and fill the areas that rejected





The skirt and bumper cleared and complete



There's an order of operations to things. First I had to mount the skirt thing up. The bumper itself covers the gap and rough upper edge on the skirt to make it a cleaner install.



It was already looking pretty good at that point, then I (with some help from my boys Trevor, Mitch and Brennan, to avoid scratches) mounted up the bumper.







Looks 133456868^5x better than that overbite situation with the exposed tow hooks and bumper shock holes. But the hood is still giving me problems. I'll just sand and spray again in the morning I guess!

[MommysLittleMonster]

Cory,

I love you. And I love your ability to revamp other car parts in these ways. Your use of a CD7 Honda Accord bumper amazes me. <3

[getamongst-it]

Cory that rear valance is looking awesome. i love how you whip together random things like this

[244Brick]

Honda accord bumper 90-93?

[Wyatt Lay]

That rear valence looks like it's going to look rad as heel mayn. Looking forward...

[rsingh3g]

That thingy is looking great

[Mr. Pedobear]

Win. Win. Win. This is one of those rare cars that you take to your grave and never forget. Absolutely fantastic.

[w201e34]

you are a god in the "random rear bumpers onto other cars" category. innovative stuff, mr. hutch. please continue.

[HooWybrow]

Dude, that rear bumper thingy looks top-notch! Really excited to see where that goes.

[Tubaman]

Hmmm i kinda like it.

[Rinku-Bitch]

Woah, that rear lip/valance/bumper thingy looks great! And the buff and painting the rocker panels made a huge difference, looks awesome!

[C-Hutch]

Oh how times change indeed.
:') seeing a Honda boy convert to a sensible BMW is majestic

I still have love for a few hondas, but driving a BMW is a special thing.

the whole car really came out perfectly the chrome trims are looking good btw

Thanks

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pumped on how good that thing looks. can't wait to see it.

I can't wait to get her where I want her to be!

When are we going to see grain grippin?

You aren't any time soon. Not planning on getting rid of my leather Nardi stuff.

My shift boot was one of the last things in the interior that was lookin bad so I took my new granny skills and made a new one





E21's have undercoating on the rockers from the factory, and since I painted it I kinda thought the white rockers made it look like a cheap maaco job, so I put herculiner on them. Should help with rust, and the texture is fairly accurate.









And that brings me to this rear skirt thing I've been working on. I picked up a rear bumper from a Honda or Acura something or other in the junk yard that matched the basic profile I was looking for. I wanted something that kind of had a soft curve that would sweep under the lines of the car with a lower "lip" to keep it looking a bit sporty. I found one and cut the top off then sectioned the lower part to narrow it and remove the exhaust cut out, as it was on the wrong side of the car anyways. I cut on either side of the exhaust cut out and grafted it back together. Here are some pics of the fab and some loose test fitting. Should hopefully be painting it this week sometime.

[Samuel L. Jackson]

When are we going to see grain grippin?

[getamongst-it]

pumped on how good that thing looks. can't wait to see it.